- Fact 2 - Experts believe that
sunlight has the potential to supply 5,000 times as much energy
as the
world currently
consumes
- Fact 3 - Energy gained from the sun
is a renewable resource and can be collected by solar panels
- Fact 4 - Solar power energy systems
for the home consist of 6 parts – a battery, a charge
controller, an inverter, solar panels, a support structure and
wiring
- Fact 5 - Solar power energy is
successfully being used for cooking, cooling, heating,
communications, driving space craft, lighting and many other
purposes
- Fact 6 - Electric ovens take the
most amount of electrical energy, followed by microwaves and
central air conditioning
- Fact 7 - Leonardo Da Vinci
predicted a solar industrialization during the late 15th century
- Fact 8 - America accounts for over
a quarter of world energy consumption with only 5% of the
world's population
- Fact 9 - Solar power is capable of
providing many times the energy demand but as it is an
intermittent energy source it is not available at all times
- Fact 10 - The amount of sunlight is
dependent on location, time of day, time of year, and weather
conditions.
- Fact 11 - A large surface area is
therefore required to collect the energy at a practical rate.
- Fact 12 - 4% of the world's desert
area with photovoltaics could supply the equivalent of all
of the world's electricity. The technology of Photovoltaics is
the conversion of sunlight into electricity - also called "solar
cells"
- Fact 13 - Horace de Saussure, a
Swiss scientist, invented the world’s first solar energy
collector, or ‘hot box’ in 1767
- Fact 14 - Albert Einstein won the
Nobel Prize in 1921 for his experiments with solar energy and
photovoltaics
- Fact 14 - Solar and
Wind Power sources are
increasing in popularity because unlike fossil fuel and nuclear
energy they leave little waste product that can harm or pollute
the earth.
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