India’s solar buildout hits 27 GW in H1 2026
PM Surya Ghar has brought rooftop solar to more than 50.06 lakh households in just over two years.
Carbon capture, recycling, new materials, agritech: the engineering that puts matter back into circulation.
Ecotech is the engineering that puts matter back into circulation: capturing carbon instead of letting it escape, reusing what was thought fit for the landfill, swapping a heavy material for a clean one. This section follows recycling pilot lines — solar panels, wind-turbine blades, plastics — carbon capture and use, low-carbon cement and steel, and the agritech that grows more with less water and fewer inputs.
We report what can be measured: a recovery yield, a cost per tonne, a plant opening, a process moving from the lab to the production line. Every article cites its sources — often industrial announcements or scientific papers the general press never picks up — and separates what is already running from what is still a prototype. This is the raw material of progress, in the most literal sense.
PM Surya Ghar has brought rooftop solar to more than 50.06 lakh households in just over two years.
A University of Newcastle team recovered almost 100% of the silver from used solar panels.
Rolls-Royce ran a modified aero gas turbine on 100 percent hydrogen.
Daily robotic cleaning cut PV soiling from 0.14–0.33% per day to below 0.02%.
A report says meter-scale perovskite modules reached 22.0% certified full-area efficiency.
Clemson students built a 1,212-lb solar prototype with more than 1,700 photovoltaic cells.
A charged molecule uses electricity to recover gold from electronic-waste leachates.