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Here are two direct ways to convert sun energy to electricity:

  1. Photovoltaics (solar panels) converts the light waves directly to electric current.
  2. Using the suns heat energy to boil water and the steam turbine runs a generator.

Indirect ways:

  1. Windmills (wind and weather are result of the suns energy interaction with the air and moisture in the atmosphere).
  2. Dams in rivers. The sun evaporates water into the atmosphere. The water precipitates back to earth and flows into rivers, back to the ocean.
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