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Who a sun is rewable resource?

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Anonymous

13y ago
Updated: 8/20/2019

The sun has been used as an energy resource by man since the dawn of our existence. Early as a resource for warmth, and simple uses such as drying clothing. However, energy uses for the sun have expanded into solar voltaic conversion as well as solar heating, including solar heat conversion into electricity. Direct solar voltaic conversion has seen a lot of improvements over the last 25 years in terms of efficiency, and you are likely to see the panels used for this, commonly referred to as solar panels, on a home or business generating electricity.

Solar heating has been successful as well, used for water heaters, convection heating of homes, and for power generation after heating water and using the steam to drive a turbine.

The term renewable is referring to the continuing availability of the resource. The sun, while it does have a limited life, is unlimited for our purposes and thus technologies utilizing the sun as its power plant are renewable energy resources.

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