Rob Lamkin, CEO of Radiant Energy, says the merger will help ramp up the technology, which uses inflatable solar concentrators to minimize use of refined silicon, a costly ingredient in solar cells.

After the asteroid has been encapsulated and the system de-spun, an inflatable solar concentrator in an advanced non-imaging configuration, provides direct solar-thermal energy through Winston Cones ...

The new micro-CPV system represents an evolution of conventional concentrator photovoltaics. It utilizes miniaturized ...

It soon became evident that the same basic technology for solar concentrators was applicable for large inflatable antennas, and follow-on SBIR contracts focused on using the polyimide material to ...

Ubiquitous Energy and Michigan State University researchers have created a fully transparent solar concentrator, which could turn any window or sheet of glass (like your smartphone's screen ...

For those who fancy their wind turbines blown up, Energy Matters reports that an Israeli company is developing inflatable wind ... HELIOtube can be installed in solar thermal power stations ...