The use of solar energy in the health sector has brought many dividends for African countries. The World Health Organization (who) had initiated a project 15 years ago for the application of solar

Akzo Nobel nv , a Dutch chemicals company, has been charged with stealing technology that makes solar energy cheap enough to compete with conventional electricity. A Dutch entrepreneur Peter van

Transporting life-saving medicines in mountain villages and areas with high temperatures will be easier with the invention of

Cheaper and more easy to operate models of solar devices have been developed and these can also be built by the people who use them

Now crops can be dried even during the night with the help of a solar dryer that can store heat in a special rock bed unit. The solar dryer consists of a solar collector, a rock bed heat storage

Soil solarisation offers a natural and eco friendly weapon to farmers for striking at the roots of pests and weeds

Cheap, solar-generated electricity has now become a reality with the successful testing of a prototype solar device at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel. It produces sufficient hot air

Martin E Nix, an engineer from Seattle, US, who holds several patents for solar powered inventions, has devised a way of turning old refrigerators into greenhouses. The condenser, compressor and

Scientists from the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation and Pacific Power, Australia, have produced a synthesis of carbon monoxide and hydrogen by combining methane,

A solar-powered water pasteurising device called Solsaver, designed by John Grandinetti, president of Grand Solar Incorporated of Hawaii, USA, may bring an end to people falling prey to