They cost £2,500 and are the size of a dishwasher. Can these new 'solar blackboxes' really stockpile free power? Could solar panels be about to get more lucrative? New technology claims to store ...

Madrid is heating up as university teams from around the world battle their wits against the sun to build net-zero, sustainable homes in this year’s European Solar Decathlon. One of our favorite ...

Sun Flare Systems is a Canadian company that has developed a solar-powered backup generator. Designed to provide power in cases of outage and disaster, the patent-pending SOS in a Box kit is basically ...

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David Kuchta, Ph.D. has 10 years of experience in gardening and has read widely in environmental history and the energy transition. An environmental activist since the 1970s, he is also a historian, ...

The roofs of big box retail stores are flat, vacant, and generally exposed to the sun, so they make ideal places for solar panels. Retailers have already invested heavily in solar. And now a new ...

Two acres of land is enough to farm a sustainable food supply for as many as 150 people, and now a San Francisco startup is making it even easier to get that farm growing. Farm From a Box is a ...

SAN DIEGO — The solar eclipse is less than two weeks away. While San Diego is not in the path of totality, people can still safely view the partial eclipse with solar glasses or they can make their ...