In a world filled with countless rectangular solar panels, Smartflower is a rare, novel solar product. Part energy system and part industrial art installation, it's essentially a huge flower ...

Combining smart technology and clean energy generators is easily the next biggest trend in the renewable energy industry, and the developers of smartflower POP are ahead of the curve. Since its ...

Solar technologists are continually striving to make solar panels more efficient in their energy-garnering powers. Smartflower is a technology that has managed to do just that with solar panels that ...

PHOENIX--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Professor Joseph Hui is such a fan of butterflies that two years ago he named his company Monarch Power after them. Their wings and flowers they visit became important ...

One of the most futuristic cool solar systems I’ve ever seen is made by SmartFlower. The analogies are built into the structure – like a flower, the machine rises with the sun, opens wide to catch the ...

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This rather novel solar collector draws inspiration from the lotus flower to provide small-scale solar energy - both electric and thermal - to domestic and small business users. The aptly named ...

This post was updated Nov. 12 at 4:39 p.m. UCLA researchers looked to nature to develop a new material that could capture more solar energy than previous technology. Ximin He, a materials science and ...

Director James Cameron and his wife Suzy Amis Cameron discuss the new solar Sun Flowers that the filmmaker designed for their childrens’ school. Solar panels are an increasingly common fixture on the ...

Using a network of synchronized sensors, a new system provides energy and meteorological data every tenth of a second to more ...

Sending stuff up to space is no easy task — even 45 years after Apollo 11. Size, weight, and cost are all massively important, so some researchers are turning to advanced origami to fold up solar ...