This UFO shaped plant in Spain is attracting much attention as it is a 2,650 towering structure able to generate solar power ...

BARCELONA, Spain — While visiting Germany last month, the world’s richest man, Elon Musk, proffered unsolicited advice to European leaders. "Spain should build a massive solar array,” he tweeted on ...

Synhelion’s solar tower technology harnesses energy from a field of solar mirrors and concentrates it onto a receiver. The receiver converts the solar radiation into high-temperature process heat, ...

Researchers have designed a fuel production system that uses water, carbon dioxide (CO 2), and sunlight to produce aviation fuel. They have implemented the system in the field, and the design, ...

Using state-of-the-art equipment, researchers in the Thermophysical Properties of Materials group from the University of the Basque Country (EHU) have analyzed the capacity of ultra-black copper ...

Aldo Steinfeld, a professor at ETH Zürich’s Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, says his system for converting ambient air into jet-ready kerosene fuel using a solar refinery tower isn’t ...

It can also be blended with fossil-derived kerosene, he adds. In 2017, the team started scaling up the design and built a solar fuel-production plant at IMDEA Energy Institute in Spain. The plant ...