Solar Power

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  • A cellphone in every pocket

    Very soon, half the humans on the planet will own a mobile phone. What comes next?
    By Andrew Leonard February 8, 2008

  • Pop goes the solar bubble?

    One analyst believes global demand for solar power is about to be swamped by oversupply. We should be so lucky.
    By Andrew Leonard January 4, 2008

  • Google's "strange" quest for cheap renewable power

    Are the class action shareholder lawsuits already brewing? How does clean-tech activism fit into a search engine company's mandate?
    By Andrew Leonard November 30, 2007

  • Solar power for the people

    While Washington politicians bicker about the blame for record oil prices, the People's Republic of Berkeley takes care of business.
    By Andrew Leonard November 9, 2007

  • Here comes the Suntech

    A Chinese solar power company says it may offshore production ... to the United States.
    By Andrew Leonard November 5, 2007

  • John McCain's climate-change forecast

    Right or wrong, we have to act, because the risk of not curbing greenhouse-gas emissions is too great.
    By Amanda Griscom Little October 15, 2007

  • The German-Indian-Silicon Valley solar power solution

    A Palo Alto startup merges local venture capital, German knowhow, and Indian manufacturing. And waits for the magic of "grid parity"
    By Andrew Leonard June 28, 2007

  • Solar Taiwan

    Look who's set to cash in on renewable energy's coming-out party.
    By Andrew Leonard October 31, 2006

  • Solar bubble

    Get out the sunscreen: Solar power hype is blowing up
    By Andrew Leonard October 24, 2006

  • Peak oil and the Arabian desert

    OPEC, meet OSPEC, the Organization of Solar Power Exporting Countries
    By Andrew Leonard July 17, 2006

  • The polysilicon intersection

    Solar power heats up, at the expense of the chip industry.
    By Andrew Leonard December 7, 2005

  • The Big Idea

    Bodyguards for sheep, plug-in hybrids, edible yards and other environmental innovations worth celebrating.
    By Sarah Karnasiewicz and Salon staff October 21, 2005

  • How George Bush lost the sun

    Solar power could be a source of new jobs and an answer to global warming. So why has the U.S. fallen behind other nations in developing it?
    By Katharine Mieszkowski October 25, 2004

  • The end of oil? Guess again

    Sure, the easy-to-find black gold is getting scarce. But Big Oil has a few cards left to play -- no matter what the cost to the environment or the developing world.
    By Sonia Shah September 15, 2004

  • You gotta fight for your right to go solar

    Kenneth and Gabrielle Adelman felt guilty about the fossil fuels their planes were consuming. So they decided to build a huge solar power system in their backyard. The local power utility was not amused.
    By Katharine Mieszkowski June 3, 2004

  • Isolated, again

    At the U.N. Summit on Sustainable Development, the harshest critics of Bush's recalcitrant policies -- and his absence -- are Americans.
    By Kim Gurney August 30, 2002

  • Oily insecurity

    After Sept. 11, conservatives call again for drilling in Alaska -- but environmentalists say the real danger is our addiction to oil.
    By Damien Cave September 27, 2001
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