Apple has revealed that its biggest data center – a facility located in Maiden, North Carolina – will be completely powered by renewable energy by the end of this year.
The move from the consumer electronics giant aims to allay concerns about power-hungry data centers being built to keep up with the demand of our data-hungry generation.
Apple says that to make its Maiden data center powered completely by renewable energy, it will be generating power on site in a scale unmatched by any other …

Flexible, semi-transparent solar panels – Image via TheVerge

Solar power is the promised land for all renewable energy and sustainability proponents but so far, the technology has not quite been able to keep up with the optimism. Technologies used to create solar power generation are at best base line and can only convert into electricity a paltry 15% of the solar energy that hits the planet’s surface.
Another impediment has been the installation surfaces solar can mount on, …

University of Michigan researchers made a breakthrough discovery on the behavior of light, which could alter solar technology from now on.
Professor Stephen Rand, Departments of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Physics and Applied Physics, and William Fisher, an Applied Physics doctoral student, found out that light, when traveling through a nonconductive material, such as glass, at the right intensity can produce magnetic fields 100 million times stronger than previously deemed …