A big solar event is taking place across North America in August and to prepare for the big blackout (a whole two minutes in some places) Google and UC Berkeley teamed up to show what the total solar ...

A total solar eclipse is coming to North America on April 8. The Great North American Eclipse, as it has been dubbed, will be visible across 13 US States, plus parts of Mexico and eastern Canada. But ...

Instead of just speculating about what our solar system would be like if Jupiter was a star, we decided to test it out. If you haven’t heard of it, there’s a program called “Sandbox Universe,” which ...

Australia's Gridcog has revealed that solar fences – effectively, bifacial panels oriented east and west at 90-degree tilt angles – demonstrate promising yield and revenue potential, based on ...

Analysts interested in measuring the degradation of molecules due to photodegradation should consider using a photochemical reactor. There are two photochemical reactors in the engineering ...

Designer Luke Twyman's solar system simulation doesn't have intricate graphics or a load of features to explore, but it can do what many others can't: sing. Called SolarBeat, it plays a music box-like ...

Swiss LED-based solar simulation and PV metrology company Avalon ST has acquired PASAN, it said in a statement. Avalon ST did not disclose the price paid for the xenon-based solar simulator firm. The ...

Photovoltaic solar arrays are attracting a great deal of attention as a viable alternative energy source. Unless an array is used to charge a battery, the DC power usually is converted to AC to be ...