The first solar panels may have rolled out of Bell Labs in the 1950s, with major press around their inconsistent and patchy adoption in the decades that followed, but despite the fanfare they were not ...

Solar panels are a long-term investment. There are ways to make them more affordable or stick them on your roof without buying them, and they will likely make you money in the long run -- though how ...

Inside a noisy industrial plant on the outskirts of Yuma, Arizona, there's a machine that smashes old solar panels into bits. It can handle 10 panels a minute, as many as 7,500 a day, extracting bits ...

(Bloomberg) -- Putting solar panels on water to generate power sounded like a dangerous gimmick to Benedikt Ortmann when he first heard about the idea. “Every child knows electricity and water don’t ...

Their sleek curves offer the first clue that the half dozen benches scattered around downtown Tehachapi aren’t run-of-the-mill spots for the public to sit. Plaques on those benches say, “I’m Gus made ...

As we transition to a green economy, we’re generating waste that, if we aren’t careful, isn’t so green. We looked at barriers and opportunities around three of the most challenging types of clean ...

The fact that there exist in our world flat rocks that make lightning when you point them at the sun is one of the most unappreciated bits of wizardry in this modern age. As hackers, we love all this ...

In this video, I revisit my experience with solar panels nearly four years after their installation. They have generally ...

Africa's renewable energy revolution needs careful management to avoid a toxic waste crisis, to prevent people from burning ...