As the co-owner of a California property that has never been tied to the electric grid, I can attest to the warm feeling of self-sufficiency that comes with a functioning solar power system. We’ve ...

Looking for the best way to feed the world’s hunger for energy, James May visited a solar furnace to see how powerful they really are. Usually, solar furnaces are used to boil water into steam to ...

Many of you will probably at some point have looked at a satellite dish antenna and idly wondered whether it would collect useful amounts of heat if you silvered it and pointed it at the sun. Perhaps ...

Many of you will probably at some point have looked at a satellite dish antenna and idly wondered whether it would collect useful amounts of heat if you silvered it and pointed it at the sun. Perhaps ...

Scientists have used solar power to heat an object to 1,800 degrees Fahrenheit (1,000 degrees Celsius) — hot enough to power a steel furnace. The proof-of-concept study, published May 15 in the ...

The gargantuan, century-old U.S. Steel mills of Gary, Indiana, fueled the rise of smokestack America in the 20th century, their blast furnaces forging heavy metal for millions of carbon-spewing cars.

Using nearly undetectable particles, a team of international researchers has peered into the sun’s heart and sketched the intricate chain of reactions that drive the solar furnace. In results ...

A Swiss company has recently launched the world’s first two solar furnaces that will reportedly melt down and recycle the crucial industry’s steel offcuts by using green energy. Jura-based Panatere, a ...

At first glance, Marriage’s flour mill in Chelmsford, England looks like any other drab industrial park building. With its boxy shape and nondescript shades of army green and taupe, the factory's ...

GT Advanced Technologies has idled — and is attempting to shed — its next-generation solar wafer manufacturing facility in St. Louis, Mo., the company announced Thursday. The Nashua-based company is ...