Start-up says it can make solar panels out of dirty silicon
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Someday, your silicon solar panels may not have to be purebloods if CaliSolar can perfect how it isolates impurities.
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Solar panels are a good source of home energy, but they can be an eyesore. Manufacturers want to make solar more popular by gussying up panels and integrating them into roofing materials. John Gartner reports from San Francisco.
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Blog: It doesn't produce beer anymore, but the facility will accommodate a 200-kilowatt array of solar panels.
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Scientists create a tiny image of the Sun using a technique which could be used to make silicon chips.
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Specialist in nanomaterial manufacturing will use its process to develop silicon cells.
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London - European scientists have developed light, flexible solar panels that could be sewn on fabrics and placed on surfaces to charge objects ranging from cellphones and DVD players to batteries.
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By Erin Nicholes, The Montana Standard, Butte  Sep. 21--Renewable Energy Corp. is planning a $50 million project that  will boost polysilicon production at its Butte plant, company officials said  Thursday.
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IBM Corp. says it has developed a greener method for recycling precious silicon that is wasted during computer chip manufacturing.
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NASA&#39;s Mars rover Opportunity seems to have stumbled into something akin to a carwash that has left its solar panels much cleaner than those of its twin rover, Spirit.
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Physicists have dreamt about it for decades: harnessing the fusion process that powers the sun to make clean, safe and limitless energy.Comment
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Solar-wafer maker allays investor concerns of rising costs.
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Scientists have struggled for years to make electricity from the sunâs light, at a cost competitive with other power sources. Now they are close, using the sunâs heat instead.
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Blog: Start-up will use series B funding to build out 20-megawatt solar-cell manufacturing plant.
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Photovoltaics made of nanowires could power small devices and lead to cheaper solar panels.
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Wafer-thin solar cells printed on aluminium film heralded as 'a revolution' by British scientists
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Blog: The search giant shares its running tab of solar power production since turning on its panels.
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A novel solar technology hits an important milestone as it competes with other forms of solar power plants.