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Minnesota winters are long, cold, and dark, which doesn’t sound like the best thing to do when it comes to saving money on your electric bill. But industry experts agree that even with shorter days, solar power can be a cost-effective cost-cutting measure for residential, commercial and industrial consumers. The amount of sunlight that reaches […]
Solar radiation from space used to be considered science fiction. But in recent years, space agencies around the world have launched studies into the feasibility of building real power plants in orbit. Such projects would be difficult to pull off, stakeholders agree, but as global attempts to curb climate change continue to fail, such moonshot […]
NASA astronauts on Thursday morning successfully attached a solar array on the International Space Station after a piece of space junk was determined to be flying dangerously close to the orbiting laboratory. Astronauts Josh Cassada and Frank Rubio began the spacewalk at 8:19 a.m. EST to install an International Space Station Roll-Out Solar Array, or […]
Demand for solar panels has shot up to unprecedented levels in Spain as Europe’s energy crisis shows no sign of letting up, in a welcome boost for a sector with huge potential. “Here we have sun almost all year round,” said Paloma Utrera showing off the black panels installed on her roof in Pozuelo de […]
For decades, scientists have been stumped by the signals plants send themselves to initiate photosynthesis, the process of turning sunlight into sugars. UC Riverside researchers have now decoded those previously opaque signals. For half a century botanists have known that the command center of a plant cell, the nucleus, sends instructions to […]
