Once it unfurls, though, it becomes a sun-tracking device that can clean water, generate electricity and even heat or cool buildings. Such functionality is a result of the solar cells it employs.

BUDDING artists showed their skills in our sunflower drawing competition – and here are some of the best. Niamh Joyce, 11, of Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, and Gethin Jones, six, from Swansea, deserve ...

The Sunflower Solar Harvester can produce heating, desalinated water, and refrigeration from just 10 hours of sunlight - enough to power several households.

The Sunflower Solar Harvester can produce heating, desalinated water, and refrigeration from just 10 hours of sunlight - enough to power several households.

For its previous permit application, Sunflower conducted an analysis of the soot that would emerge from the smokestacks of two 700 MW plants it most recently wanted to build, relying on a ...