A solar tube brings outdoor light into your home through a pipe that runs from your roof to your ceiling. It lights your home by capturing, transmitting and diffusing available daylight. The main ...

We have a lot of off grid design features in our house. One of those is solar tubes. Since they seem to generate so much interest with visitors I thought I would share what I know about them after ...

USAG DAEGU, South Korea -- We consume a lot of energy because it's an essential part of day to day life; we can't live without it. However, excessive use of energy sources such as oil, coal and gas ...

Maker of CIGS thin-film solar tubes secures $600 million in funding and $1.2 billion in contracts. In a software-driven world, it's easy to forget about the nuts and bolts. Whether it's cars, robots, ...

The next wave of solar power technology may be a skinny glass tube that looks like a fluorescent light bulb painted black. The tube contains 150 solar cells, wrapped around the inside of the glass.

Bavaria's minister of economic affairs, Hubert Aiwanger, has awarded €10.8 million to German photovoltaic company Tube Solar AG. The company makes what it describes as robust, lightweight thin-film ...

Millions of cylindrical glass tubes--the signature component of Solyndra's solar panels--were abandoned and presumably destined for destruction after the startup filed for bankruptcy. But not all of ...

A Portugese-based fabricated steelmaker that serves the growing solar power industry is opening its first U.S. plant in Tennessee. MSS Steel Tubes USA LLC officials announced Wednesday it will invest ...

Typically, if you want to convert solar energy into electrical energy, you use either photovoltaic (PV) cells, or you use the sunlight to create steam to turn a turbine. Both of these methods are well ...

Solar tubes are a low-cost alternative to installing skylights. These miniskylights are available in a few different sizes and are packaged complete with roof ...