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Abstract: Over the last decades, the generation of largescale electricity has increased considerably using renewable energy. This idea came to resolve the overwhelming electricity demand by consumers ...

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Abstract: The uses of solar photovoltaic (PV) systems have increased significantly as the world moves towards renewable energy sources (RESs). Rooftop solar systems (RSSs) are particularly popular due ...

An artistic rendering of a dust and gas disk encircling the young exoplanet, CT Cha b, 625 light-years from Earth. Full image, annotation, and caption shown below. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, ...

Last month, Google quietly killed off Google Sky Maps. But there’s still another way to virtually explore most of the solar system a la Google Maps: it’s called Google Maps in Space. Google Maps in ...

For the last few weeks, we’ve been running a sidebar survey about some of the factors that are convincing Electrek readers to add home solar power systems to their homes. After receiving over a ...