solar power

Ceramics and glass business news of the week

By April Gocha / April 24, 2015

Kyocera builds floating solar plants, Corning collaborates for OLEDs, GE to see capital assets, and more ceramics and glass business news of the week for April 24, 2015.

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Solar-powered plane plots route for round-the-world flight

By Jessica McMathis / February 6, 2015

The Solar Impulse 2 is the “first solar airplane to fly through the night, between two continents, and across the United States,” but will it make it ‘round the world?

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Other materials stories that may be of interest

By April Gocha / February 4, 2015

Comic book thesis, bacteria-powered fuel cells, advanced materials for protective gear, and other materials stories that may be of interest for February 4, 2015.

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Sponge-like material soaks up sunlight, uses it to make steam

By Jessica McMathis / September 9, 2014

A new sponge-like material structure developed by scientists at MIT can soak up the sun—and uses that sunlight to make steam.

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Totally transparent concentrator offers a clear view of the power of solar

By Jessica McMathis / September 2, 2014

A team from Michigan State University has developed a new luminescent solar concentrator that offers greater efficiency with complete transparency.

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Solar-powered plane plans to circle the globe without gas

By Jessica McMathis / August 18, 2014

A plane powered only by the sun is set to become the first to complete an around-the-world solar flight.

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California fried chicken? Super solar plant singes wings and blinds pilots with its 300,000-plus mirrors

By Jessica McMathis / May 12, 2014

The bright lights of Las Vegas have long lit up the desert. But a new solar power plant near the California-Nevada border—the largest on the planet—is providing new illumination in the midst of the Mojave.

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Self-cleaning coating solves solar’s soiling problems

By Jessica McMathis / February 24, 2014

Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed a new “low-cost superhydrophobic coating” that counteracts sun-blocking contaminates that settle on photovoltaic surfaces.

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Other materials stories that may be of interest

By Eileen De Guire / January 7, 2014

Other materials stories that may be of interest

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Ceramics and glass business news of the week

By / January 4, 2013

Here is what we are hearing: Virginia apartment complex first to showcase Solarban 70XL/SunClean glass PPG Industries announced that the Radius Urban Apartment complex in Newport News, Va., is the…

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