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...Solar energy The sun’s energy is captured to produce electricity for the house and electric vehicle; surplus is fed to the grid. Solar energy heats water and the concrete floor of the house. The sun also co-produces our food via photosynthesis in the garden. Partnership The system is shared with many other partners – all the plant and animal species co-existing on the...

...solar energy in sand to improve the efficiency of power plants and provide energy at night. The technology, developed at the Masdar Institute of Science and Technology, uses gravity to drain sand from a higher basin into a lower one, heating up the sand grains with solar power during the transition. In the lower basin, the energy can be stored and withdrawn at low ......

...a Professor in Inorganic Electrochemistry at the University of Edinburgh. Her research focusses on the redox properties of compounds many of which contain a transition metal. Such properties find many applications from solar energy conversion to catalytic processes and chemical biology pathways. She was awarded an honorary degree from The Open University in November 2014....

...energy sources are derived principally from the enormous power radiated by the Sun. Solar power, both in the form of direct solar radiation and in indirect forms such as bioenergy, water or wind power, was the energy source upon which early human societies were based. When our ancestors first used fire fuelled by burning wood, they were harnessing the power of...