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The sun's own energy comes from nuclear reaction within the sun
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How is sunshine free like solar energy?
Sunshine is solar energy. It is free if you collect your own solar energy because nobody legally owns the sun (and nobody ever will), therefore solar energy from the sun is free. However if you depend on a thrid party to deliver the energy to you from a solar power station, it will cost you a maintenance and delivery fee, to pay for the upkeep of the station. However, if you install your own solar panels rather than relying on a third party, it will cost you to install solar panels on your home, to convert your home to using solar energy and to take your home "off the system" (to remove your dependency from nationally-produced power). But it will not cost you anything to use solar energy from your own solar panels. In a couple of years, you would have produced enough personal energy from solar power to make the cost of the conversion worth it.
What is the problem with solar energy?
Solar energy, while being quite useful, can also have it's own problems. For example, how does solar energy work if you occupy a place that rains most of the time? The sun is never out so, no solar-power. Furthermore, the rate of efficiency with solar panels is only 40%, is it worth all the money that is paid for them?
How can solar energy be used?
Solar energy can be used directly for water heating, or it can be converted to electric energy using photo-voltaic cellsA:Solar energy works by the use of silicon structured panels. These panels can trap the heat from the sun and convert it to more common energy, electricity. The electricity is then channeled to a power plant like building which distributes the energy accordingly. These panels can also be installed in your own home. There are several ways of capturing and using the sun's energy, including photovoltaic cells, active solar energy, passive solar energy and concentrating solar power systems.
What turns sunlight into energy?
solar panels in technological terms. It takes in light energy from the sun and converts it into electrical energy. Chlorophyll in natural terms, found in plants. Usually, photoautotrophs that make their own food from the energy they get from light energy.
How does a solar panel produce DC current?
(Another contributor wrote:)Light has its own energy and when it is conducted by a material the energy turns into electrons which are collected and made into direct current electricity (DC). When sunlight fall on a solar panel (pv cells) the electrons get excited and start flowing and the electron flow is nothing but electricity. Thus a solar panel produces electricity.
The sun's own energy comes from solar energy?
Yes, and it is formed from the process called nuclear fusion. The sun's own energy comes from nuclear reactions taking place in the sun's core.
How do solar panels work, and how effective are they?
Solar cells convert the suns energy and converts it to electricity. They rely on the ability of matter to emit electrons when light is shone on it. If you would like to do your own research, physics.org will be very helpful.
Is solar power a form of geothermal energy?
No geothermal energy comes from the earth such as volcanos and other sources of extreme heat. Geo meaning earth and rocks and thermal being heat. Solar energy is its own thing.
What country invented solar energy system origanatewho invented solar energy.?
Solar energy is energy from the sun, so really it forms on it own, but Russell Ohl discovered it and he was from America.
What are bacteria called that can make their own food without using the Suns energy?
Chemo-synthesizers.
Is there a single sun in universe?
There is a single sun in our own solar system, but not in the universe. There are trillions upon trillions of suns (or stars) in the universe.
Three uses of solar energy?
Whats the difference between solar energy and regular energy, nothing. So what are three uses of "non-solar" energy? I assume you want the benefits of solar energy, but that has its own question. Be more specific and think a little when entering answers.
How is sunshine free like solar energy?
Sunshine is solar energy. It is free if you collect your own solar energy because nobody legally owns the sun (and nobody ever will), therefore solar energy from the sun is free. However if you depend on a thrid party to deliver the energy to you from a solar power station, it will cost you a maintenance and delivery fee, to pay for the upkeep of the station. However, if you install your own solar panels rather than relying on a third party, it will cost you to install solar panels on your home, to convert your home to using solar energy and to take your home "off the system" (to remove your dependency from nationally-produced power). But it will not cost you anything to use solar energy from your own solar panels. In a couple of years, you would have produced enough personal energy from solar power to make the cost of the conversion worth it.
What are some pros and cons of using solar energy?
One will find using solar energy has it's own set of pros and cons. Since using solar energy doesn't produce pollution, it can help improve the environment of the earth. However, a con of using solar energy would be the production of the solar energy collecting devices, which do produce quite a bit of pollution.
What organism makes its own food using solar energy?
Green plants.
A producer makes its own food from raw material and energy from?
from the solar radiation
Do plants get diabetes?
no plants don't get diabetes because they produce their own food by the suns energy so they are called autotrophs.
