Solar Power

Solar power converts sunlight into electricity, directly using photovoltaics (PV) or indirectly using concentrated solar power (CSP).

Solar technologies are broadly characterized as either passive or active solar, depending on how they capture, convert and distribute solar energy.

Active solar techniques include photovoltaic panels and solar thermal collectors to harness the power.

Passive solar methods include orienting a building to the Sun, selecting materials with favorable thermal mass or light dispersing properties, and designing spaces that naturally circulate air.

The potential solar energy that humans could use differs from the amount of solar energy present near the planet’s surface because factors such as geography, time variation, cloud cover, and the land available to humans limit the amount of radiation that reaches us.

Solar power is an essential part of renewable energy.

Its technologies are broadly characterized as either passive or active solar, indicating how the Sun’s energy is captured, converted, and distributed.

Solar space station

China Launches A Solar Power Space Station That Will Beam Electricity To Earth

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China has accelerated its ambition to put a solar power plant in orbit that will beam energy back to Earth in two years. More than two decades ago, NASA suggested an energy project of a similar nature. Still, they never implemented it. The UK government-commissioned independent studies to justify a £16 billion British equivalent in orbit by […]

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