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 ...

When he wasn't designing warships, John Ericsson was dreaming up solar technology. The Swedish American inventor, credited with the screw propeller and the first ironclad vessel in the U.S. Navy, ...

Howe Industries has submitted a design for a solar-powered steam rocket engine for propelling CubeSats to the National Science Foundation (NSF). With only two moving parts, the ThermaSat engine uses a ...

The West Lancashire Light Railway Trust recently received a 75% grant awarded to them by the Lancashire Environmental Fund.

Rondo Energy launches the world's largest industrial heat battery in California, delivering 24/7 steam and heat powered by renewables.

Steam power, once a major force behind the Industrial Revolution, could be coming back into fashion, after Chinese researchers designed the world's "darkest metal" that converts sunlight to steam at ...

Ever since the beginning of human civilization, we have looked toward the sun to nurture us. We have basked in its rays, ascribed metaphysical meaning to it, and in recent centuries we have harnessed ...