Thanks to more people becoming mindful of the health of the environment, public awareness of alternative energy sources has been gradually growing in recent years. But many people still don’t know much about solar powered energy. Although awareness has come such a long way, there is still much more to be done. Fortunately, the web, [...]

Last month, plans were announced for covering the Milan Trade Fair with an 18-MW rooftop solar array – which would be the world’s largest solar array. Now, Itally will also be able to claim the second largest rooftop array. The new array will be on the Interporto di Padova in Padua and will have a [...]

Tuvalu is a tiny island nation in the Pacific ocean. It’s only three feet above sea level, so rising oceans mean disaster for the 12,000 inhabitants of this tropical island. There have been evacuation plans in place for the entire population if climate change continues to cause rising waters. At its highest, Tuvalu is only [...]

The Desertec Industrial Initiative is powered by a dozen German companies from the engineering, energy and finance sectors but have also won support from firms in Algeria and Spain and from officials in Egypt and Jordan. German deputy environment minister Matthias Machnig said solar systems had “enormous potential.” The massive project would cover 6,000 square [...]

Perhaps it is time for the blimp to make it’s long overdue comeback as a viable transportation method. A group of students from technical high schools and engineering schools in France have built a solar blimp that will cross the English Channel by the end of the summer. The 72-foot helium blimp is made of [...]

The beautiful Italian city of Milan will very shortly be home to a 2.9 million-square-foot, 18-MW solar array atop the Milan Trade Fair. The array will become the largest rooftop array in the world, surpassing the current record-holder, a 12-MW array on the General Motors factory in Zaragoza, Spain. In comparison, the largest rooftop array [...]