If you want solar power, you usually have to make a choice. You can put a solar panel in a fixed location and accept that it will only put out the maximum when the sun is properly positioned. Or, you ...

In the past few years, the price-per-watt for solar panels has dropped dramatically. This has led to a number of downstream effects beyond simple cost savings. For example, many commercial solar farms ...

A Carnegie Mellon University solar-powered robot has demonstrated a Sun-synchronous navigation concept that could be useful for long-term exploration of planets and moons. The idea is for the robot to ...