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  2. Solar energy - Wikipedia

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    In 2011, a report by the International Energy Agency found that solar energy technologies such as photovoltaics, solar hot water, and concentrated solar power could provide a third of the world's energy by 2060 if politicians commit to limiting climate change and transitioning to renewable energy. The energy from the Sun could play a key role ...

  3. Sun - Wikipedia

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    The Sun is the star at the center of the Solar System. It is a massive, nearly perfect sphere of hot plasma, heated to incandescence by nuclear fusion reactions in its core, radiating the energy from its surface mainly as visible light and infrared radiation with 10% at ultraviolet energies. It is by far the most important source of energy for ...

  4. Solar core - Wikipedia

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    The energy produced by fusion in the core, except a small part carried out by neutrinos, must travel through many successive layers to the solar photosphere before it escapes into space as sunlight, or else as kinetic or thermal energy of massive particles. The energy conversion per unit time (power) of fusion in the core varies with distance ...

  5. CNO cycle - Wikipedia

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    A self-maintaining CNO chain starts at approximately 15 × 10 6 K, but its energy output rises much more rapidly with increasing temperatures [1] so that it becomes the dominant source of energy at approximately 17 × 10 6 K. [4] The Sun has a core temperature of around 15.7 × 10 6 K, and only 1.7% of 4 He nuclei produced in the Sun are born ...

  6. Solar power - Wikipedia

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    Greenhouse gas emissions per energy source. Solar power is one of the sources with the least greenhouse gas emissions. Part of the Senftenberg Solarpark, a solar photovoltaic power plant located on former open-pit mining areas close to the city of Senftenberg, in Eastern Germany. The 78 MW Phase 1 of the plant was completed within three months.

  7. Sunlight - Wikipedia

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    Sunlight is a key factor in photosynthesis, the process used by plants and other autotrophic organisms to convert light energy, normally from the Sun, into chemical energy that can be used to synthesize carbohydrates and fuel the organisms' activities. Daylighting is the natural lighting of interior spaces by admitting sunlight.

  8. List of light sources - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of sources of light, the visible part of the electromagnetic spectrum.Light sources produce photons from another energy source, such as heat, chemical reactions, or conversion of mass or a different frequency of electromagnetic energy, and include light bulbs and stars like the Sun. Reflectors (such as the moon, cat's eyes, and mirrors) do not actually produce the light that ...

  9. Radiant energy - Wikipedia

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    The absorbed solar energy is partly re-emitted as longer wavelength radiation (chiefly infrared radiation), some of which is absorbed by the atmospheric greenhouse gases. Radiant energy is produced in the sun as a result of nuclear fusion. [11]