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Dusting Off Solar Panels With an Electric Charge

Dubai is prone to frequent dust storms. A new solar panel dust particle remover made in Israel boosts power and cleans off dust at...

Nanophotonic Building Panels Beam Sunlight and Heat into Cold Space

We've developed a new type of structure that reflects the vast majority of sunlight, while at the same time it sends heat into that coldness, which cools manmade structures even in the day time

Internationally Funded $1 Billion Solar Plant Planned for Upper Egypt

Upper Egypt, which actually lies in the southern half of the country below the Nile Delta, is preparing to build a $1 billion solar...

This Desalination Infographic is Like Taking Climate Change Advice from Shell

If Shell were to design a clever infographic with a bunch of facts, it would probably highlight the amount of fossil fuels the United...

Lebanese “Green Loan” Funded Solar Irrigation System Breaks Ground

When Fadi Jamaleddine decided to install a solar array on his farm in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley, he wasn't thinking of the environment or global...

Japan Mines Seabed “Fire Ice” – The World’s Most Dangerous Source of Energy?

Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National Corporation, a Japanese state-owned prospecting company says it has successfully extracted methane gas from an undersea methane hydrate...

Markus Kayser’s Sun Cutter is Low-Tech Laser Cutter Powered Entirely by Sun

Anyone who loved the 3D Solar Sinter that uses the sun's energy to turn sand into functional glass objects will love the Sun Cutter....

Summer World Cup in Qatar Doesn’t Thrill FIFA Medical Chief

After months of debate about the wisdom of holding the 2022 World Cup football tournament in Qatar during the height of summer, FIFA's medical...

Masdar CEO Appointed Minister of State

By appointing the Chief Executive Officer of the country's leading renewable energy initiative as Minister of State, the oil and gas rich United Arab...

SunDwater Solar Mirrors Focuses the Sun to Make Dirty Water Clean

SunDwater's solar powered water distiller can convert polluted water like this into clean drinking water Chronic and even acute shortages of fresh drinking water is...

China’s Suntech Solar, Owing Millions, Faces Emminent Takeover

Suntech's financial woes may have an effect on solar energy plant projects like this one Suntech Solar, the Chinese solar panel manufacturing company that became...

Shams 1: World’s Largest Concentrated Solar Plant Goes Live

The Shams 1 Concentrated Solar Plant (CSP) in Abu Dhabi is the largest of its kind in the world and it has finally gone...

Libya’s Oil Reserves Pale in Comparison to Solar

Libya has long relied on its crude oil resources for revenue, but the country possesses a natural resource far more abundant and hardly tapped...

Jordan’s Solar Mamas Betrayed by Apathy and Misogyny

We all had so much hope for Jordan's Solar Mamas - two women who traveled from a dusty village to India in order to...

First Solar Takes on More Serious Desertec Role

First Solar has until recently participated as an associate partner of the Dii initiative designed to develop renewable energy projects throughout the Middle East...

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24 7 renewable energy: how solar, wind, batteries and AI SaaS replace fossil fuels

A new report from the International Renewable Energy Agency based in Abu Dhabi makes something clear that many in the industry already suspected. When solar and wind are paired with battery storage, they can deliver reliable, round the clock electricity at costs that compete with, and often beat, fossil fuels.

A summer of sugar wax or time for laser treatments? The environmental answer

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Make paper mache with flowers to create stunning vase

There’s something quietly beautiful about what Rebloom Studio is doing, and it starts with waste. At wholesale flower markets, mountains of unsold blooms are tossed out at the end of each cycle. Perfect flowers, just not sold in time. Most of them are burned or dumped. Rebloom takes that moment and turns it into something else.
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