A bright future is dawning in China as the world's largest solar tower project (by expected tower capacity) recently broke ground — and it's a major win for people and the planet alike.

In the solar tower power plant, a volumetric receiver at the top of the tower absorbs the concentrated sunlight and uses it to heat the surrounding air to up to 700 degrees Celsius. A steam generator ...

Solar panels have gotten so cheap that the plant, born of an old attempt at harnessing the power of the sun, appears to be obsolete.

Modern timber construction is growing at a remarkable rate in the United States and the latest significant project to ...

This is China's new dual-tower solar thermal plant, Interesting Engineering reports. Solar panels that convert sunlight into ...

The ambitious renovation replaces fiber reinforced concrete panels with recyclable aluminum and PV cladding, slashing energy ...

Another technique uses moveable mirrors to focus the sun's rays on a collector tower, where a receiver sits. Molten salt flowing through the receiver is heated to run a generator. Other solar ...

When I stood on a platform to see the vast array of heliostats in the Gobi Desert near Dunhuang, where 12,000 mirrors track ...

Australia’s Vast Renewables has completed a first-of-its-kind concentrated solar thermal power (CSP) receiver tower, one of the final components of what will be Australia’s first large scale ...