Crystals form the basis for the penetrating icy blue glare of car headlights - they could also be fundamental to the future in solar energy technology? Manufactured alloy crystals, such as indium…

Wind turbines often disappoint because the models that justified them weren't all that accurate. But as wind turbines themselves hopefully improve, modeling may as well. And output power may get some…

Jeremy Leggett, who runs the largest solar power installer in the UK, is celebrating the World Energy Congress in South Korea by selling you a book predicting the demise of his competitors in…

Chemists recently achieved a breakthrough in efforts to develop an economical means of harnessing artificial photosynthesis by narrowing the voltage gap between the two crucial processes of oxidation…

While America has drastically reduced its greenhouse gas emissions - CO2 from energy is back at early 1990s levels and emissions from coal are back at early 1980s levels - that isn't good enough for…

While solar energy is clearly the future, it isn't ready yet. Two large obstacles are cost versus efficiency and storage. Wind power is advocated by a much smaller group, because its obstacles are…

A new technique for improving the connections between stacked solar cells could one day improve the overall efficiency of solar energy devices and reduce the cost of solar energy production. Stacked…

The search for clean, green sustainable energy sources marches on. While some studies note that solar and wind energy could be viable by 2025, if they could bypass environmental lawsuits, hydrogen…

A new study conducted by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) found that it might be possible for solar and wind generation to be cost-competitive with conventional energy, without federal…

Thanks to athletes like Ryan Braun and Lance Armstrong, doping has gotten a bad rap, but if solar power is ever going to be viable, doping will be essential. Flexible thin film solar cells require…