This is the Solar Sunflower, a Swiss-made array that could be the future of solar energy. Looking like a huge, mirrored satellite dish, it combines photovoltaic solar power and concentrated solar ...

A new, sunflower-inspired solar panel stand is able to turn to face the sun without using any motors. The system increases the amount of energy the panels can harvest without using any additional ...

Imagine a transportable solar power station that tracks the sun like a sunflower and cools itself by pumping water through its veins just like a plant. The Sunflower Solar Harvester, developed by the ...

Send for the Sunflower. A solar energy harvester could soon become the first “drop-in” machine to provide renewable energy, water and heat to off-grid communities in remote regions. The 10-metre-high, ...

Clark met Caldwell at a picnic a couple months after graduating and soon got an invitation to visit GCA. "People come to us with an idea," Caldwell said. "If it's a good idea, we'll invest the initial ...

Most of us are unaware of how much electricity we consume everyday for our routine activities and nothing would be better than trapping solar energy for accomplishing these activities. XDModo Solar ...

Researchers at city’s Indian Institute of Science (IISc), the country’s premier scientific research organisation, have taken a leaf out of a sunflower’s sun-tracking system to generate more power from ...

A University of Wisconsin-Madison electrical and computer engineer has found a way to mimic the passive heliotropism seen in sunflowers for use in the next crop of solar power systems. Unlike other ...

In February of this year, we covered the release of the nifty solar Window Charger from XD Modo (now XD Design) that maximizes available sunlight by sticking to a window with a removable silicone ...

Entergy unveiled Mississippi’s largest solar power plant Thursday with the completion of a 100-megawatt station near Ruleville in Sunflower County. The Sunflower Solar Station in the Mississippi Delta ...

WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) — On Monday morning, Sunflower Electric Power Corporation filed an application for a solar project in Russell County. The Sunflower Electric Solar @ Russell project would be a ...

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