When he wasn't designing warships, John Ericsson was dreaming up solar technology. The Swedish American inventor, credited with the screw propeller and the first ironclad vessel in the U.S. Navy, ...
In the frozen outskirts of the solar system, a reddish dwarf planet orbits in silence. Known as Sedna, it is so distant that one trip around the Sun takes more than 11,000 years. For much of that time ...
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Scientists Generate Power At Night By Passively Beaming Heat into Outer Space. It’s “Like Solar Cells in Reverse”
UC Davis engineers have invented a Stirling engine that captures Earth’s escaping heat to generate power from the night sky.
Electricity demand could increase up to 16 percent across the United States by 2030, requiring up to a six-fold increase in the pace of building new generation and transmission. Can solar-plus-storage ...
COLUMBUS, Ind.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--With a mission to power a more prosperous world, Cummins Inc. (NYSE: CMI) continues to make significant investments in solar energy with the installation of Cummins’ ...
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Scientists make nighttime power by beaming heat into space
Scientists are learning how to turn the chill of outer space into a quiet source of electricity, using the night sky itself as a heat sink. By carefully managing how surfaces shed heat after dark, ...
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