From environment-friendly cars, researchers move on to an environment-friendly aircraft, which derives all its energy from sunlight. Developed by a team of scientists from AcroVironment, an

An American company, Solar Power International, Inc. has developed a solar lawn mower that is pollution- free. A conventional gasoline-powered lawn mower, on the other hand, causies more

The US firm, Amoco-Enron Solar Power Development Corp of Houston, Texas, has proposed a solar photovoltaic (SPV) power plant in Rajasthan's Thar desert. The 150 mw project is estimated

The internationally funded programme to promote solar photovoltaic systems remains a nonstarter

Not a single proposal has been cleared by the Indian Renewable Energy Development Authority (IREDA), the financing arm of the Union ministry of non-conventional energy (MNES), in the 2 years since

Despite readily available loans, industry is wary of producing solar photovoltaic devices on a large scale

Virtually inexhaustible solar energy could be the cheapest cooking fuel the world has known

A new plan to popularise solar photovoltaic products has recently been launched in India

Present day interest in solar power has arisen mainly because of rapidly dwindling energy resources. But the quest for tapping the sun's energy began in ancient times.