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2. Outline of solar energy - Wikipedia

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   Solar power tower – also known as 'central tower' power plants or 'heliostat' power plants or power towers, is a type of solar furnace using a tower to receive the focused sunlight. Solar-powered desalination unit – a device capable of harnessing energy from the sun to produce portable water from saline water through direct or indirect methods.

3. Solar power - Wikipedia

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   Solar power, also known as solar electricity, is the conversion of energy from sunlight into electricity, either directly using photovoltaics (PV) or indirectly using concentrated solar power. Solar panels use the photovoltaic effect to convert light into an electric current . [ 2 ]

4. 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.

5. How organizers are harnessing solar energy to help Rio de ...

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   Next City looks into how a solar panel installation at a community center aims to be a model for Brazil's neglected favelas to take energy into their own hands. How organizers are harnessing solar ...

6. Solar architecture - Wikipedia

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   Solar energy is clean and renewable. Solar architecture is designing buildings to use the sun's heat and light to maximum advantage and minimum disadvantage, and especially refers to harnessing solar power. It is related to the fields of optics, thermics, electronics and materials science. Both active and passive strategies are involved.

7. Photovoltaics - Wikipedia

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   A photovoltaic system, or solar PV system is a power system designed to supply usable solar power by means of photovoltaics. It consists of an arrangement of several components, including solar panels to absorb and directly convert sunlight into electricity, a solar inverter to change the electric current from DC to AC, as well as mounting ...