Barcelona-based architect André Broessel has developed of a spherical glass solar energy generator. The system uses a ball lens and specific structure to improve energy efficiency by 35%.
A Taste of Solar Maximum (video)
July 30, 2012
Solar Eclipse Pavilion
July 29, 2012
The Solar Eclipse Pavilion designed by Michael Jantzen, is a design proposal for a public art gathering-place made by steel, that also converts sun’s power into electricity.
Solar Storms
May 28, 2012
The space-weather forecast for the next few years: solar storms, with a chance of catastrophic blackouts on Earth. Are we prepared?
An X-class flare, the most powerful in NOAA’s classification system, overloads a sensor on the Solar Dynamics Observatory. With the solar cycle expected to peak in 2013, more flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs) may be headed earthward. Photograph by NASA SDO, August 9, 2011 / National Geographic
Northern Lights in clouds
March 22, 2012
A large solar coronal mass ejection smacked into planet Earth’s magnetosphere producing a severe geomagnetic storm and wide spread auroras. Photographer Fredrick Broms (Northern Lights Photography)
Ocean Supremacy- largest and greenest superyacht
March 9, 2012
Ocean Supremacy by Sauter Carbon Offset Design (SCOD) a 42-meter “eco” yacht, is the largest and Greenest among the 10 fastest Superyachts vessel in the world.
Venus transit across the Sun
October 16, 2011
The rare transit of Venus across the face of the Sun in 2004 was one of the better-photographed events in sky history. Image credit: David Cortner
Updated: Venus transit June 5, 2012
800m tall solar tower for Arizona
August 2, 2011
Foscat 32 solar catamaran
June 14, 2011
Google’s Heliostat control system
June 11, 2011
