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, ...

Andersen recognized that modern materials, satellite-guided orientation systems, and computer-controlled mirrors could do what Eyde couldn’t achieve a century before. And so the project—called ...

A California startup wants to beam extra sunlight to Earth orbiting mirrors, but some are skeptical about whether the physics ...

This is the same principle behind using magnifying lenses or mirrors to start fires. Never, ever look at the sun using an astronomical instrument unless you want to know what it feels like to ...

Renowned Russian pace engineer Vladimir Syromiatnikov believed that an enormous mirror could be used to bounce sunlight onto ...

This mirror is designed to give you more sunlight in the beer garden. The "Smart Mirror" tracks the sun by using GPS, rotating 270 degrees and reflecting the sun's light through its full arc.