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Solar-powered tower-shaped power plant
The Technical Thermodynamics Institute of the German Space Center has supported Spain with the technology to build a solar-powered pyramid-shaped thermal power plant on…
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Solar powered ship
On May 8, the Swiss ship Sun21 completed its first solar-powered journey across the Atlantic.
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Solar power and application paradox
In Vietnam, since 1989 solar power has been applied and developed extensively. However, the fact that the development is only limited in rural and remote areas, also in…
Scientific application
EC announces the solar potential map
According to the VNA correspondent in Belgium, with the goal of increasing the rate of renewable energy utilization to 20% of the total energy consumption between now an…
Environment
Cover the sun to block ... global warming
Scientists from both US and Harvard universities have proposed an idea to combat global warming by using chemicals to reduce the intensity of sunlight.
Environment
Japan wants the Olympic 2020 to use full renewable energy
The Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Organizing Committee set a goal for all of the electricity used at the two sporting events to be derived from renewable energy sources i…
Environment
Greenhouse effect
The greenhouse effect is the effect of warming the Earth's air due to the Sun's shortwave radiation passing through the atmosphere to the ground; The hot absorbing groun…
Environment
America is so dependent on solar energy that they start to fear eclipse
When the darkness encompasses North America, it is expected that the grid will shrink by about 70 megawatts per minute, two to three times faster than the daily rate of…
Environment
Clean energy sources are far outstripping coal
2015 is the year marked a major turning point for the clean energy industry when for the first time in history, renewable energy has surpassed coal to become the world's…
Environment
Solar Impulse 2 completes the flight around the world
According to a reporter in Geneva, the Solar Impulse 2 (SI2) plane landed safely at Al-Batten Airport, near the United Arab Emirates (Abu Dhabi), at 00:00 5 minutes (now…
Environment
Renewable energy is enough to provide 1/4 of the world's electricity demand
According to the energy policy network REN21, a record investment in clean energy in 2015 has made the largest annual increase in the ability to generate renewable energ…
Environment
The price of solar electricity in Dubai is about one third the price of electricity in Vietnam
A record low electricity price has just been set, it shows an important step forward for solar power as the world is facing the pressure of rapidly reducing CO2 emission…
Environment
Most of the world's solar cells are installed in the wrong direction
Solar energy is considered the cleanest, endless and safest energy source today, favored and used by many families. But how to install and use this energy source to be t…