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

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, ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

The introduction of several advanced, efficient, and more robust power options over the years has largely overshadowed steam engine technology. However, it was a revolutionary technology that, upon ...

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 ...

Stardock Entertainment announced today that Sins of a Solar Empire II, the sequel to its popular strategy game, is launching on PC via Steam this summer. The publisher didn’t specify an exact date but ...

With the hot weather we have had this summer, the topic of solar cooking has come up a couple of times. It is an interesting concept and one that decided to delve into more closely. Using solar energy ...

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 ...