Linda Hezel harvests basil in the shade of the solar array at her farm in Kearney. “When it’s super brutal out, I’m so grateful for the shade,” Hezel said, adding that it’s safer to work under the ...

Too much natural light, with its glare and heat, is just as much a problem as not enough. All kinds of indoor shades exist for shutting light out–mini-blinds, vertical blinds or roll-up shades. These ...

Regular window blinds already help people to save electricity – by keeping incoming sunlight from heating a room up, they reduce the need to run an air conditioner. SolarGaps, however, take things a ...

G24 Innovations (G24i showcased a very simple, long term, cost effective renewable source of electricity to recharge batteries and is available to blinds and shades manufacturers and installers across ...

What if your window blinds could power your home in addition to shading its rooms? That’s the idea behind SolarGaps’ new solar blinds. These smart blinds designed to track the sun can be controlled ...

"It should be a human right to be able to grow food." Farmers discover unexpected benefits of solar panels on croplands: 'We're going somewhere with this' first appeared on The Cool Down.

Partial shading farms with solar panels increases crop production all over he world. This means more low-cost green energy, ...

Temperatures remained into the 80s well in the fall this year in parts of the Midwest. Agrivoltaics offers a respite to ...