Similarly, absorbent plates on a roof can heat liquid in tubes that supply a house with hot water. Solar energy is lauded as an inexhaustible fuel source that is pollution- and often noise-free.

Increasing energy demands and problems associated with burning fossil fuels have heightened interest in more sustainable ...

Researchers explore the likelihood that Earth's climate, as affected by solar heat, plays a role in seismic activity. Using mathematical and computational methods, they analyzed earthquake data ...

Solar is the fastest-growing source of electricity in the U.S. with growth occurring in all 50 states over the last 10 years.

Triple Solar BV has developed a residential photovoltaic-thermal (PVT) heat pump that uses waste heat from PV modules, ...

Earth is absorbing more sunlight and trapping more heat than it releases into space, causing our planet to warm up at an increasing rate. New research shows that cloudy areas over oceans are ...

That produces an incredible amount of heat — so much that similar solar-gathering methods can ... will prevent about 1.7 ...

In this case, though, the solar energy is also used to heat the water which drastically improves the performance of the electrochemical process. A holistic approach also maximises the economic ...

They assumed the heat battery to have a storage volume of 320 L or 93 kWh and the solar collectors to have a total surface of 8 m2. They also assumed the heat pump to have a nominal heating ...