Scientists studied the potential of growing corn near solar panels, finding a viable path despite shady conditions. Sheep, lettuce and peppers are already thriving alongside solar panels on working ...
Solar skeptics have long warned that panels would fade fast, leaving homeowners with expensive glass and little power. Three ...
As his shoes sank in the mud in a research field on a recent hot summer day, Ian Skor walked along neatly placed rows of corn. A few paces later, he got to a different kind of row in the field of ...
Solar panels are no longer just lining barn roofs and field edges, they are rising directly above rows of vegetables, orchards and vineyards, reshaping how food and power are produced on the same ...
In the late 1980s, when Switzerland was just beginning to experiment with solar power, engineers bolted a few shiny panels ...
The idea of solar energy being transmitted from space is not a new one. In 1968, a NASA engineer named Peter Glaser produced the first concept design for a solar-powered satellite. But only now, 55 ...
Connecticut’s Shared Clean Energy Facilities Program allows residents to reap the benefits of solar who are not eligible to install solar panels themselves.
Project managers James Winter (Air Force Research Laboratory) and Tara Theret (Northrop Grumman) hold models of the photovoltaic and the radio frequency sides of the sandwich tile that converts solar ...