A solar pool heater uses a pump, a solar collector and piping in conjunction with your existing pool filter. The process is simple: The pump takes water from the pool, then forces it through the ...

The sun, a nuclear fusion reactor of immense power, located just over eight light-minutes or 93 million miles away from us, is the source of just about all of the energy on this planet. Oil, coal, ...

Nanotechnology mimics plant photropism to provide efficient solar energy collection. Imagine your roof covered in tiny sunflower-like solar collectors that provide all the energy you need to run your ...

Solar thermal energy is the process of concentrating sunlight to generate heat, which can be used to generate electricity or heat a home, its water supply and more. Solar thermal energy can be used as ...

There's not much shade at the Ann Arbor Farmers Market. As workers began a project to install solar collectors on the market's roof under sunny skies Monday morning, it was easy to see why they might ...

The single-wall SMC frame provides the best advantage for the customer and the environment: it replaces 11 single parts and thereby enables much easier assembly and lower logistics efforts. The ...

Researchers developed a solar collector with a dielectric Bragg mirror, optimizing energy conversion by separating sunlight ...