Solar steam generation and desalination technologies represent a crucial frontier in addressing global freshwater scarcity and environmental sustainability. By harnessing solar energy to generate ...

In a recent article published in Communications Materials, researchers presented a novel solar steam generation approach for water treatment. This method is particularly useful in desalination, ...

Faced with the world's impending freshwater scarcity, researchers turned to solar steam generators, which are emerging as a promising device for seawater desalination. The team sought design ...

A Finnish-Swedish consortium has designed a hybrid system that uses photovoltaics and solar thermal energy separately to provide steam to industrial facilities. The PV unit is coupled to a sand-based ...

The world added 474TWh of new solar capacity in 2024. Image: Ember Climate. The world’s cumulative installed solar generation capacity has doubled between 2022 and 2024, to reach over 2,000TWh, which ...

A research group from Ghana has developed a solar PV-powered steam cooker (ISESC) with sand-based thermal energy storage (TES). “The potential of sand, given its thermal stability and low cost, has ...

LITTLETON, Colorado, Aug 29 (Reuters) - Global electricity generation from solar farms has exceeded generation from wind farms since May, marking the longest ever stretch when solar power has been the ...

LITTLETON, Colorado, May 21 (Reuters) - Global electricity generation from solar farms is set to exceed output from nuclear reactors for the first time this summer, marking an important milestone in ...

The fabrication and application of MJF-printed SSGs. (a) Synthesis process of the C@Fe3O4 ink for MJF printing. (b) Illustration of the MJF testbed setup and the structure of printed SSGs. (c) ...

(Nanowerk News) Faced with the world’s impending freshwater scarcity, a team of researchers in Singapore turned to solar steam generators (SSGs), which are emerging as a promising device for seawater ...