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Mega solar plant uses 170,000 mirrors to generate heat for electricity

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Mega solar plant uses 170,000 mirrors to generate heat for electricity

The Ivanpah Solar Energy Facility is one of the largest solar thermal energy plants in the world. It is spread out over 14 square kilometres and can power 140,000 homes every year

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Places around England compete to host underground nuclear waste dump

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Places around England compete to host underground nuclear waste dump

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Radioactive review: A reimagining of Marie Curie's luminous legacy

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Radioactive review: A reimagining of Marie Curie's luminous legacy

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We need nuclear power to fight climate change, but is it doomed?

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JET fusion reactor

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UK nuclear fusion reactor will fire up for the first time in 23 years

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Metallic hydrogen would be the ultimate fuel - if we can make it

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Metallic hydrogen would be the ultimate fuel - if we can make it

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transparent solar cell

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Punching holes in solar cells turns them into transparent windows

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Mount Piper coal Power Station, Portland NSW

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Australia’s push for hydrogen power may prop up fossil fuel industry

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solar panels Chile

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Massive solar panels in Chilean desert point to our renewable future

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Manual Override exhibition

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Don’t miss: Art meets science, atoms find love and numbers grow curves

This week, see scientifically informed art in New York, discover our atomic past and wrap your mind round calculus with the help of some bad drawings

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Tiny artificial sunflowers could be used to harvest solar energy

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Renewables overtook fossil fuels in UK electricity mix for first time

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Boris Johnson jokes about UK being ‘on the verge’ of nuclear fusion

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Could rising costs at Hinkley Point C end the UK's nuclear ambitions?

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