Solar power has become a lot more mainstream in the last few years, with innovations in technology and installations more commonplace than ever before. As well as being able to power homes and large buildings, solar panels can be used in their miniature form to power things like toys, mobile phones and even cars! Who can forget the solar powered calculator that everyone...

When it comes to emerging science and technology, renewable energy is right up there as one of the most widely researched and often most impressive areas. Solar energy is considered the most viable form of renewable energy because of how abundant it is in our atmosphere but solar cells are far from cheap and they don’t have the longest life that one would hope for...

OK, so we’re the first to sit and wonder why the world of renewable energy hasn’t come on in leaps and bounds. The truth of the matter is turning ideas into money are more difficult when creating stuff like solar panels and wind turbines than creating the latest killer touch screen tablet. However, you can generally rely on the Norwegians to improve matters...

The fight to find a viable and meaningful use of renewable energy is far from over. Solar power is a fairly obvious use of our natural resources especially if global warming leads to hotter summers but solar panels can prove cumbersome and far from attractive. They are also quite costly unless you are one of the lucky ones to receive free solar panels from HomeSun and...