China has just turned on a world-first solar thermal power plant in the Gobi Desert, a move that could change the way solar energy is produced. This new plant is designed to be cheaper and more ...

From a distance, the Ivanpah solar plant looks like a shimmering lake in the Mojave Desert. Up close, it’s a vast alien-like installation of hundreds of thousand of mirrors pointed at three towers, ...

Scientists have proposed a novel method to use a PV-powered system to desalinate water and produce H2 for desert agriculture. Proposed by Qatar's Hamad Bin Khalifa University, the system integrates ...

KARBALA, Iraq (AP) — Iraq is set to open the country’s first industrial-scale solar plant Sunday in a vast expanse of desert in Karbala province, southwest of Baghdad. It’s part of a new push by the ...

While the desert is known for being rather hostile, a sphere set has rather recently been placed in the desert that will collect solar energy as the sun’s temperatures in the drier arid regions are ...