Home > Extreme MIT stacks solar panels like pancakes, increases their power output by up to 20x What's better than one pancake? A whole stack of pancakes! Using the same logic, a team of MIT ...

Existing solar thermochemical hydrogen production systems have low efficiency, but MIT's design could harness up to 40% of solar heat for hydrogen generation. The breakthrough system relies solely on ...

Active Surfaces founders, including Shiva Bhakta (on right) and Richard Swartout, (second from left) with summer interns from MIT’s Sloan School of Management. Photo: MIT $100K Entrepreneurship ...

MIT boffins have created solar cells that can adhere to many different surfaces to provide power on the go. The new technology surpasses conventional solar panels in both size and ability, with 18 ...

Thanks to a groundbreaking solar-powered desalination system developed by Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers, more communities could soon have access to cheap, clean drinking water.

MIT researchers claim to have created a revolutionary solar-powered desalination system powered directly from sunlight without any auxiliary external power or batteries. The invention has 'adapted to ...

Solar cell technology is a seen as a key pillar in our transition to cleaner forms of energy, but within this field there is all kinds of room for experimentation. Solar cells that are thin and ...