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  2. Solar activity and climate - Wikipedia

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    The finding that solar activity was approximately the same in cycles 14 and 24 applies to all solar outputs that have, in the past, been proposed as a potential cause of terrestrial climate change and includes total solar irradiance, cosmic ray fluxes, spectral UV irradiance, solar wind speed and/or density, heliospheric magnetic field and its ...

  3. Solar thermal energy - Wikipedia

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    To achieve this in solar thermal energy plants, solar radiation is concentrated by mirrors or lenses to obtain higher temperatures – a technique called Concentrated Solar Power (CSP). The practical effect of high efficiencies is to reduce the plant's collector size and total land use per unit power generated, reducing the environmental ...

  4. Thermophotovoltaic energy conversion - Wikipedia

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    At this temperature, about half of all the energy reaching the surface is in the infrared. Based on this temperature, energy production is maximized when the bandgap is about 1.4 eV, in the near infrared. This just happens to be very close to the bandgap in doped silicon, at 1.1 eV, which makes solar PV inexpensive to produce. [3]

  5. Solar-cell efficiency - Wikipedia

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    Knowing the technical data of certain solar cell, its power output at a certain temperature can be obtained by () = + (), where is the power generated at the standard testing condition; is the actual temperature of the solar cell. A high quality, monocrystalline silicon solar cell, at 25 °C cell temperature, may produce 0.60 V open-circuit (V ...

  6. Reflective surfaces (climate engineering) - Wikipedia

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    In October 2013, the United States Department of Energy ranked Cool Roofs as a 53 out of 100 (0 to 100 weighted average) for a cost-effective energy strategy. [57] "Climate issues can affect cool roof performance. Cool roofs are more beneficial in warmer climates and may cause energy consumption for heating applications to rise in colder climates.

  7. Solar power is helping Texas keep its air conditioning amid ...

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    AUSTIN, TEXAS — Solar power has played a small but crucial role in keeping the lights — and air conditioning — on in Texas amid this week’s brutal heat wave. Solar plants gave the state ...

  8. Solar energy - Wikipedia

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    Solar energy is the radiant energy from the Sun's light and heat, which can be harnessed using a range of technologies such as solar electricity, solar thermal energy (including solar water heating) and solar architecture.

  9. Concentrated solar power - Wikipedia

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    In a CSP plant that includes storage, the solar energy is first used to heat molten salt or synthetic oil, which is stored providing thermal/heat energy at high temperature in insulated tanks. [63] [64] Later the hot molten salt (or oil) is used in a steam generator to produce steam to generate electricity by steam turbo generator as required. [65]

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