This list tallies recent advances in solar technology and large-scale solar and enviornmental projects. Browse the links below to learn more about each project - as the century draws on, we should be seeing large advances in solar technology and many large scale renewable energy projects. Rest assured, we'll keep you posted.
Learn more about BP Solar's Paranhos Solar Panel Project in Angola, where solar panels are bringing useful energy to a war-torn village of 360 people living in poverty.
Using advanced solar panels in outer space, it may one day be economically feasible (or even necessary) to beam the sun's seemingly infinite power supply back to Earth for general consumption. Click to read more about space-based solar power efforts and the driving forces behind them.
Enviromission's planned 1 kilometer-high solar tower of power will soon be the largest man-made structure in the world. This magnificient and ambitious solar project is finally getting underway in Austrailia.
Click here to read more about Enviromission's Solar Tower of Power.
A new Breakthrough in Solar Panel technology in South Africa has lead to the development of a photo-sensitive alloy only 5 microns thick! Learn more about it's implications to solar panel technology here.
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