In this curious film, a pair of friends venture out into the desert to build an accurate to scale model of our solar system.

Researchers in China have assessed the impact of using up to 50% of the Sahara desert for the deployment of large scale solar power plants and have found these may impact the global cloud cover ...

Scientists have used a CPLEX-based MIP model and tested it on a section of the 10 MW Masdar City Solar Photovoltaic Plant. In their simulation, they assume the use of two robotic cleaners to operate ...

JA Solar, one of the world’s largest solar manufacturers, has introduced its latest innovation—DesertBlue, a high-efficiency PV module engineered to perform reliably in extreme desert environments.

Large solar farms in the deserts of China are not only producing vast amounts of electricity but also reshaping the ecosystems beneath them, according to a growing body of peer-reviewed research. A ...

Pluto has been added to the University of Arizona’s scale-model walking tour of the solar system, but will that be enough to mend the dwarf planet’s broken heart? Not likely, according to a recent ...

From a distance, the Ivanpah solar plant looks like a shimmering lake in the Mojave Desert. Up close, it’s a vast alien-like installation of hundreds of thousand of mirrors pointed at three towers, ...

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