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Solar power refers to the process of turning sunlight into electrical energy. Generating solar power usually uses one of two approaches to generate electricity: solar panels that use photovoltaic cells or solar thermal energy that uses steam.
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OCT 08, 2015Earth & The Environment
The Earth may look like a cool, pretty green and blue ball with white cloudy swirls atop it all from the view of outer s ...Written By: Anthony BouchardSEP 30, 2015Earth & The Environment
Solar power is a great energy source. It’s green, and once the infrastructure is installed, it’s free. For a ...Written By: Andrew J. DunlopSEP 24, 2015Space & Astronomy
Yesterday’s Part I of this article explained how, according to NASA scientists, Martian dust storms don’t pr ...Written By: Andrew J. DunlopSEP 10, 2015Videos
NASA has shared this video of a very cool solar tornado from the Sun's surface as captured by the Solar Dynamics Observa ...Written By: Anthony BouchardSEP 07, 2015Space & Astronomy
Remember how exciting it was when Neil Armstrong stepped on the Moon? Those footsteps changed the world. It’s been ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimAUG 30, 2015Earth & The Environment
Hawaii made history recently, as it threw a switch connecting the world’s first ocean thermal energy conversion po ...Written By: Andrew J. DunlopAUG 29, 2015Earth & The Environment
Yesterday’s part I of this article (http://labroots.com/trending/id/1590/caltech-team-announces-their-creation-of- ...Written By: Andrew J. DunlopAUG 28, 2015Earth & The Environment
Solar energy is the perfect energy source, except for one thing: you can’t store it, at least, you couldn’t ...Written By: Andrew J. DunlopAUG 05, 2015Earth & The Environment
When you think of solar powered cars, you probably think of something that looks like a giant eraser on four bicycle whe ...Written By: Andrew J. DunlopJUL 15, 2015Technology
It wasn't long ago that the solar powered airplane known as Solar Impulse was grounded in Hawaii after its attempt to cr ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJUL 12, 2015Earth & The Environment
For the first time in human history, a wave energy converter (or WEC) has been connected to the US energy grid. A protot ...Written By: Andrew J. DunlopJUL 11, 2015Technology
Solar Impulse, the solar-powered airplane that is powered by just four lithium ion batteries and has made several long f ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJUL 10, 2015Space & Astronomy
If you've been paying attention to the New Horizons mission, you may have noticed that the probe won't be going into orb ...Written By: Andrew J. DunlopJUL 05, 2015Earth & The Environment
In the 1990's and 2000's there was a golf course building boom going on in Japan, but not surprisingly, that ended up le ...Written By: Andrew J. DunlopJUL 01, 2015Earth & The Environment
When most of us think of solar energy, we think solar panels, but there's a new way to do solar. You're not likely to se ...Written By: Andrew J. DunlopJUN 29, 2015Space & Astronomy
In today's technology there's a lot of talk about "the cloud" and how all of our documents and data can be stored "virtu ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimJUN 27, 2015Space & Astronomy
One of the cooler phenomena that occur in outer space are black holes, and famous physicist Stephen Hawking would agree. ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJUN 21, 2015Videos
Scientists often use tracking devices to monitor how animals move, behave, and live. Depending on the type of animal tha ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJUN 19, 2015Space & Astronomy
After being dormant for a long seven-month stretch of time, the European Space Agency's (ESA) comet lander Philae was he ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJUN 14, 2015Space & Astronomy
For the first time in seven long months, the Philae lander from the European Space Agency (ESA) has woken up and sent a ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJUN 09, 2015Earth & The Environment
Often, when the idea of total conversion to clean energy for the US is proposed, the chorus in return is: that's just no ...Written By: Andrew J. DunlopJUN 08, 2015Space & Astronomy
It's taken more than 100 days since its launch, but NOAA's Deep Space Climate Observatory, (referred to as the DSCOVR sa ...Written By: Andrew J. DunlopMAY 04, 2015Earth & The Environment
So, you want to put solar panels on your house. Great. You'll be generating clean electricity. You won't have to worry a ...Written By: Andrew J. DunlopMAY 04, 2015Technology
You can order one now, on reserve. Musk plans to be shipping the Powerwall in 3-4 months (August to September time ...Written By: Robert Woodard
OCT 08, 2015
Earth & The Environment
The Earth may look like a cool, pretty green and blue ball with white cloudy swirls atop it all from the view of outer s
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 30, 2015
Earth & The Environment
Solar power is a great energy source. It’s green, and once the infrastructure is installed, it’s free. For a
...
Written By:
Andrew J. Dunlop
SEP 24, 2015
Space & Astronomy
Yesterday’s Part I of this article explained how, according to NASA scientists, Martian dust storms don’t pr
...
Written By:
Andrew J. Dunlop
SEP 10, 2015
Videos
NASA has shared this video of a very cool solar tornado from the Sun's surface as captured by the Solar Dynamics Observa
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 07, 2015
Space & Astronomy
Remember how exciting it was when Neil Armstrong stepped on the Moon? Those footsteps changed the world. It’s been
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
AUG 30, 2015
Earth & The Environment
Hawaii made history recently, as it threw a switch connecting the world’s first ocean thermal energy conversion po
...
Written By:
Andrew J. Dunlop
AUG 29, 2015
Earth & The Environment
Yesterday’s part I of this article (http://labroots.com/trending/id/1590/caltech-team-announces-their-creation-of-
...
Written By:
Andrew J. Dunlop
AUG 28, 2015
Earth & The Environment
Solar energy is the perfect energy source, except for one thing: you can’t store it, at least, you couldn’t
...
Written By:
Andrew J. Dunlop
AUG 05, 2015
Earth & The Environment
When you think of solar powered cars, you probably think of something that looks like a giant eraser on four bicycle whe
...
Written By:
Andrew J. Dunlop
JUL 15, 2015
Technology
It wasn't long ago that the solar powered airplane known as Solar Impulse was grounded in Hawaii after its attempt to cr
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUL 12, 2015
Earth & The Environment
For the first time in human history, a wave energy converter (or WEC) has been connected to the US energy grid. A protot
...
Written By:
Andrew J. Dunlop
JUL 11, 2015
Technology
Solar Impulse, the solar-powered airplane that is powered by just four lithium ion batteries and has made several long f
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUL 10, 2015
Space & Astronomy
If you've been paying attention to the New Horizons mission, you may have noticed that the probe won't be going into orb
...
Written By:
Andrew J. Dunlop
JUL 05, 2015
Earth & The Environment
In the 1990's and 2000's there was a golf course building boom going on in Japan, but not surprisingly, that ended up le
...
Written By:
Andrew J. Dunlop
JUL 01, 2015
Earth & The Environment
When most of us think of solar energy, we think solar panels, but there's a new way to do solar. You're not likely to se
...
Written By:
Andrew J. Dunlop
JUN 29, 2015
Space & Astronomy
In today's technology there's a lot of talk about "the cloud" and how all of our documents and data can be stored "virtu
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
JUN 27, 2015
Space & Astronomy
One of the cooler phenomena that occur in outer space are black holes, and famous physicist Stephen Hawking would agree.
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUN 21, 2015
Videos
Scientists often use tracking devices to monitor how animals move, behave, and live. Depending on the type of animal tha
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUN 19, 2015
Space & Astronomy
After being dormant for a long seven-month stretch of time, the European Space Agency's (ESA) comet lander Philae was he
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUN 14, 2015
Space & Astronomy
For the first time in seven long months, the Philae lander from the European Space Agency (ESA) has woken up and sent a
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUN 09, 2015
Earth & The Environment
Often, when the idea of total conversion to clean energy for the US is proposed, the chorus in return is: that's just no
...
Written By:
Andrew J. Dunlop
JUN 08, 2015
Space & Astronomy
It's taken more than 100 days since its launch, but NOAA's Deep Space Climate Observatory, (referred to as the DSCOVR sa
...
Written By:
Andrew J. Dunlop
MAY 04, 2015
Earth & The Environment
So, you want to put solar panels on your house. Great. You'll be generating clean electricity. You won't have to worry a
...
Written By:
Andrew J. Dunlop
MAY 04, 2015
Technology
You can order one now, on reserve. Musk plans to be shipping the Powerwall in 3-4 months (August to September time ...
Written By:
Robert Woodard