This is an ongoing project to build a heliostat from a floppy drive. Heliostats are used by solar arrays to track the sun. This mod uses the main logic board to control the head stepper motor. The ...

Scientists have used stearic acid and a combination of stearic acid and carbon black to increase thermal conductivity in a photovoltaic-thermal system linked to a heliostat field concentrator. From a ...

We’re past the winter solstice and the days are getting longer, but that doesn’t mean we’re not sick of the sun setting around 5 in the afternoon. There is a way to get more sunlight through our ...

PASADENA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Heliogen, Inc. (“Heliogen”) (OTCQX: HLGN), a leading provider of AI-enabled concentrating solar energy technology, today announced its selection as one of nine ...

Remember being a kid in the days before cell phones and computers? Instead of “texting” to your friend in class, we passed down a note one desk at a time whenever a teacher wasn’t looking. We didn’t ...

A scientist at Sandia National Laboratories is exploring an unconventional way to detect asteroids after dark, by turning solar power mirrors into nighttime surveillance tools. John Sandusky believes ...

Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) plants, such as the Gemsolar and PS10 plants in Spain, use arrays of mirrors (or heliostats) to focus a large area of the Sun's rays onto a small area, where the ...

Some people have a cool, gloomy room in their house that receives little if any direct sunlight, even though it has a window. Should you be one of those people, and you want to save electricity, ...

One of the world’s first molten salt tower concentrated solar power (CSP) projects that uses a “Stellio” heliostat was grid-connected at the end of December in China’s Xinjiang province near the ...

An Adelaide solar manufacturer's negotiations with one of India's largest power companies could result in 1,000 new jobs in South Australia. Heliostat South Australia, which has been formed out of the ...

If your spaces fall short when it comes to natural sunlight, there are plenty of things you can do to remedy the situation. One clever design that really caught our eye was this modern coffee table ...