A group of scientists from the Universidade de Vigo in Spain have sought to predict possible future variations in the solar photovoltaic power resource in the Atacama Desert in northern Chile, the ...

An international research team studied the solar PV impact of emissions from a coal-fired power plant in the Atacama Desert, finding that after five months of exposure, the deposited dust on co ...

Chile’s Atacama desert is home to the only solar thermal tower in Latin America. ... Chile intends to replace them with solar thermal plants or convert them into batteries like the Alba Project.

Giga-scale desert region solar plants may have positive climate impact The El Romero Solar plant in the Atacama Desert in Chile. Image: Acciona. Joshua S Hill. May 4, 2023. Facebook; ...

San Pedro de Atacama, the desert’s tourist hub, is an isolated hot spot of human hustle. Every evening I was there, a wind kicked up before sunset and dropped off as soon as darkness fell.

From the American Southwest to South Africa, desert plants have been targets of plant poaching. Even the remote Atacama wasn’t safe. How, Guerrero wondered, was poaching affecting the desert’s ...