February 6, 2023

Are there still careers in solar energy innovation?

SolarSteam was recently picked by Foresight Canada as one of the country’s most investable clean tech companies. The start-up uses concentrating solar thermal to produce hot water and steam for use by industrial and institutional clients that need to meet an initial 20% to 30% green energy target by 2030. “One of our recognitions was …

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February 6, 2023

Are there still careers in solar energy innovation?

Here, heliostats encircle the solar receiver atop the central tower in Tower CSP. A big opportunity for careers in solar engineering is in Tower heliostat design and requires STEM talent in AI, robotics, and optics. Is innovation still needed in solar energy? So are there still solar innovation careers for engineering talent to invent new …

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Margaret Hamilton popularized the term ‘software engineering’ while leading nearly 100 developers on Apollo, partly to win respect for a discipline so new it was not yet a recognised field when her team’s code helped land Apollo 11 on the Moon September 21, 2026
Margaret Hamilton was 32 and running a team of nearly 100 developers at MIT when she coined the phrase 'software engineering' — half as a joke, half as a demand for respect. Six weeks later, her team's code became the first ever to run on the Moon. The post Margaret Hamilton popularized the term ‘software […]
How did a Sahel nation facing advancing desert regrow roughly 5 million hectares of trees on farmland by changing one rule about who owns the seedlings sprouting in a farmer’s field? September 21, 2026
Over two decades, roughly 5 million hectares of Niger's degraded farmland regrew an estimated 200 million trees — not through planting, but through a change in who legally owns a sprout in a farmer's field. The post How did a Sahel nation facing advancing desert regrow roughly 5 million hectares of trees on farmland by […]
Every normally sighted human eye has a blind spot about as wide as three small coins held side by side at arm’s length, created where the optic nerve exits the retina and leaves no photoreceptors, and the brain quietly paints over the gap using whatever pattern surrounds it September 21, 2026
Every human eye has a permanent blind spot where the optic nerve exits the retina, roughly the size of a small coin at arm's length. The brain hides it by painting in whatever pattern surrounds the gap — a trick so seamless it is now being used to test theories of consciousness. The post Every […]

Pisgah Energy installs solar on third building for craft furniture maker October 15, 2026
Pisgah Energy has finished a third solar project for Vanguard Furniture, continuing a multi-year partnership between the North Carolina-based businesses. Building on two earlier solar investments in Conover, North Carolina, Pisgah has completed a 848-kW rooftop system at Vanguard’s manufacturing facility in Hillsville, Virginia. The project should offset 95% of the craft furniture building’s electricity… […]
221 distributed solar policy actions were taken in Q3 all across country October 15, 2026
The N.C. Clean Energy Technology Center (NCCETC) today released its Q3 2026 edition of “The 50 States of Solar” report. The quarterly series provides insights on state regulatory and legislative discussions and actions on distributed solar policy, with a focus on net metering, distributed solar valuation, interconnection rules, community solar, residential fixed charges, residential demand… […]
Solar imports from India, Indonesia, Laos get official AD/CVD October 14, 2026
The U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) has found that the domestic solar panel manufacturing industry has been harmed by unfairly priced imports from India, Indonesia and Laos. The affirmative final determination by the ITC means that antidumping and countervailing duties (AD/CVD) will be placed on silicon solar cells and modules imported from the three countries.… […]

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