A little over a month ago, Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Tesla’s vice president of electric vehicles, Steve Johnson, announced the company’s plan to build a “solar power windmill” that would harness solar energy to power its cars and trucks.The plan has since been scrapped by Tesla, but not before Musk and Johnson did an…
On March 11, 2016, solar power startup SolarWorld unveiled its first solar power tower at the World Solar Energy Conference in San Francisco, California.But what exactly is it, and what are its future applications?The solar energy tower is actually two towers, each one designed to generate a specific amount of electricity for a particular customer.The…