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Tûranor PlanetSolar Wikimedia Commons The First Solar-Powered Ship To Circumnavigate The Globe Completes Its Trip -- Popular Science The MS ...

Image via U.S. Air Force/Master Sgt. Mark C. Olsen Military ‘Battle Lab’ Cashes In On Solar Savings -- Earth Techling No one ever said train...

Photo: Pilot ... the power station at Kuraymat may become part of a vast chain of plants generating solar power, if ambitious plans come to...

13-year-old Aidan Dwyer developed a new way to collect solar energy, and along the way sparked a fierce debate among scholars and scientists...

From Watts Up With That? It has been said that Obama is the worst president since Jimmy Carter, perhaps now in the eyes of 350.org supporter...

Powering up: Workers help construct a solar power plant built by the Pasadena, CA-based eSolar. The mirrors focus light on a tower, generati...

From BBC: Europe's biggest space company is seeking partners to fly a demonstration solar power mission in orbit. EADS Astrium says the ...

Image: Glass power: Equipment at Applied Materials’s R&D center in Xi’an, China, processes glass panels 5.7 square meters to make solar...

The eSolar plant in the Mojave Desert generates enough electricity to power 4,000 homes From Times Online: On a dry, scrubby plain on the ed...

Workers for Solar City help to install solar panels on a Westminster, Calif., home. The company leases solar panels to homeowners in Califor...

Is it a mirage? Some experts think so, others say it will become a reality. AP From Spiegel Online: Some say it's a foolish fantasy, oth...

The fall in cost is due to the increased lifetime, the institute says From the BBC: The cost of installing and owning solar panels will fall...

From Scientific American: New research by leading alternative energy research firm New Energy Finance finds that solar power will cost le...

Jaxa's vision of a space solar power system (SSPS) Photo: AFP From The Telegraph: Japan’s space agency is planning to construct a sola...

From The BBC: A sustainable energy initiative that will start with a huge solar project in the Sahara desert has been announced by a consort...

More energy than we could ever possibly need, but how can we tap into it? (Image: Chris Anderson/Aurora/Plainpicture) From New Scientist: EV...

From Scientific American: Editor's Note: Scientific American 's George Musser will be chronicling his experiences installing solar ...

Image: Randy Montoya From Discovery Magazine: It's taken 25 years, but a new solar-thermal plant in New Mexico has finally broken the ol...

From Time Magazine: (DURANGO, Colo.) — The sun had just crested the distant ridge of the Rocky Mountains, but already it was producing enoug...

From CNET: A proposed solar-energy project in the California desert that caused intense friction between environmentalists and the developer...