Solar

Solar power offers a ray of hope in Middle East’s least electrified country

Yemen has been grappling with almost 30 years of electricity crisis due to fuel shortages and a war that caused severe damage to the national power infrastructure.

Farmers stand by solar panels used to power the pumping of water from a well on the outskirts of Sanaa, Yemen June 6, 2022. Picture taken June 6, 2022.
 20 km in diameter mystery interstellar visitor identified approaching the solar system.

20 km in diameter mystery interstellar visitor identified approaching the solar system

 James Webb Space Telescope captures image of TWA 7b.

James Webb Space Telescope captures image of TWA 7b, smallest exoplanet ever photographed

 CME Erupts on the Sun.

Britain prepares for hostile nations, actors to weaponize the sun - report


Solar energy firm offers revolutionary warranty

A solar energy firm unveiled a revolutionary extended warranty of 48 months for any malfunction caused by the installation of a home solar energy system.

The solar field at Kibbutz Ketura.

NIS 11 million allocated to remove Israel's asbestos roofs

Minister of Environmental Protection, Gila Gamliel said, "Our new program is Win-Win, in which we replace carcinogenic asbestos with renewable energy with environmental and economic gain.”

Solar panels at one of the projects of Enlight Renewable Energy

Israeli scientists develop technique to make solar panels more efficient

Solar panels either use photovoltaic cells or photoelectrochemical cells to function and photoelectrochemical cells can only generate energy during sunlight hours.

Solar panels at one of the projects of Enlight Renewable Energy

Technion research finds method to harvest renewable energy

Cheaper batteries could make solar, wind and other renewable sources – that are not always present and require storage for reliable production – a more reliable option for energy production.

Illustration: A single-flow battery with multiphase flow.

Ex-NSA top lawyer: Here's how to block next SolarWinds mega hack

Writing in Politico on Monday, Glenn Gerstell, who served as NSA general counsel, said that if a specific US “government agency had that legal power," they could prevent the next attack.

THE SOLARWINDS logo is seen outside its headquarters in Austin, Texas, in December.

Solar panel breakthrough discovery could help increase energy production

The discovery allows for a better understanding of semiconductors and the most efficient way to build photoelectrochemical cells, so that solar energy and storage can be better produced.

Solar panels at one of the projects of Enlight Renewable Energy

Will Israel's energy future be primarily solar power?

"From the Red Sea to the Dead Sea, this is the first region in the world to have achieved 100% daytime solar power."

The solar field at Kibbutz Ketura.

Invisible ‘space hurricane’ detected over North Pole for first time

The 1,000 kilometers plasma hurricane is invisible to the human eye, but not to weather satellites.

View of Earth  from the International Space Station (ISS) orbiting Earth in an image taken by NASA astronaut Christopher J. Cassidy August 19, 2020

Pentagon tests prototype for space energy beam - report

The premise behind the plan is that a solar energy system like this could be sent to gather sunlight and convert it into solar power, which would then be beamed back to Earth at specific points.

Did a Jewish space laser cause the deadly forest fire in California?

Harvard’s top astronomer to ‘Post’: Alien life could exist

Lightsail technology could allow humanity to achieve interstellar travel • Modern “Noah’s Ark” could help save, reconstruct life on Earth.

The planet Proxima b orbiting the red dwarf star Proxima Centauri, the closest star to our Solar System, is seen in an undated artist's impression released by the European Southern Observatory August 24, 2016.