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Researchers in China have assessed the impact of using up to 50% of the Sahara desert for the deployment of large scale solar power plants and have found these may impact the global cloud cover ...

From a distance, the Ivanpah solar plant looks like a shimmering lake in the Mojave Desert. Up close, it’s a vast alien-like installation of hundreds of thousand of mirrors pointed at three towers, ...

China has just turned on a world-first solar thermal power plant in the Gobi Desert, a move that could change the way solar energy is produced. This new plant is designed to be cheaper and more ...

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Desert & Delta Safaris has launched its fourth solar field at Camp Moremi, increasing the total to five camps that are now powered by solar in Botswana. The solar fields provide the power to run pumps ...

Meteorites found in the Sahara Desert might be pieces of Mercury that broke off as the result of a collision when the Solar System was still forming. The meteorites had many parallels to the surface ...

KARBALA, Iraq (AP) — Iraq is set to open the country’s first industrial-scale solar plant Sunday in a vast expanse of desert in Karbala province, southwest of Baghdad. It’s part of a new push by the ...