Straight out of a (low-budget) Bond flick is the Solar Death Ray, a combination of particle board, 112 mirrors and, of course, Sol. Each of the mirrors are pointed towards one area, focusing the sun’s ...

Using the 10-foot parabolic mirror he'd built atop a discarded communications dish behind Bear Down Gym, Angel vaporized a hole in a quarter-inch piece of steel for a visiting congresswoman. Angel, a ...

What spans 1,600 hectares, cost $2.2 billion to build, and fries up to 28,000 birds per year? The new BrightSource solar power plant in California's Mojave Dessert. The plant, which uses some 350,000 ...

The Fish and Wildlife Service refused to attend a hearing Thursday to discuss penalties for a huge federally backed solar power plant that has incinerated dozens of protected birds with the “death ...