Overlanding and camping inevitably involve a lot of gear eating up valuable vehicle roof space. Crossbars, bike racks, kayak carriers, cargo boxes, roof-top tents, jerry can holders and solar panels ...

Marin high school students who like to work with their hands got to make and take home a solar box over the weekend. The event, a maker’s workshop, was organized by the Marin nonprofit Big Skills, ...

US big-box retail and grocery stores have enough rooftop solar potential to power more than 7.9 million homes – utilizing all that unused space for clean energy is a no-brainer. UnderstandSolar is a ...

If you’re like us, odds are you’ve probably never thought too deeply about portable solar panels. As long as they harness energy from the sun and charge your devices on a long trek, they’re all the ...

Solar box cookers have been popular with campers and back-to-the-landers for decades. The Kyoto Box solar cooker, an updated design, has just won first place in the Financial Times Climate Change ...

Solar panels cover the roof of a Sam's Club store on April 22, 2009, in Glendora, California. Solar energy offers a cheap, renewable source of electricity that could reduce and, eventually, eliminate ...

They cost £2,500 and are the size of a dishwasher. Can these new 'solar blackboxes' really stockpile free power? Could solar panels be about to get more lucrative? New technology claims to store ...