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2. Applications of photovoltaics - Wikipedia

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   One of the most cost effective solar applications is a solar powered pump, as it is far cheaper to purchase a solar panel than it is to run power lines. [ 11 ] [ 12 ] [ 13 ] They often meet a need for water beyond the reach of power lines, taking the place of a windmill or windpump .

3. Solar updraft tower - Wikipedia

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   Solar towers can incorporate photovoltaic (PV) modules on transpired collectors for additional daytime output and the heat from PV array is utilised by the solar tower. A grade-school pupil's home do-it-yourself SUT demonstration for a school science fair was constructed and studied in 2012, in a suburban Connecticut setting.

4. Microgeneration - Wikipedia

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   The solar cells were dismantled 7 years later during the Reagan administration. [5] The use of Solar water heating dates back before 1900 [6] with "the first practical solar cell being developed by Bell Labs in 1954." [7] The "University of Delaware is credited with creating one of the first solar buildings, “Solar One,” in 1973. The ...

5. Photovoltaic system - Wikipedia

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   A photovoltaic system, also called a PV system or solar power system, is an electric 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 convert sunlight into electricity, a solar inverter to convert the output from direct to alternating current, as well as mounting, cabling, and ...

6. Solar-powered Stirling engine - Wikipedia

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   NASA patented a type of solar-powered Stirling engine on August 3, 1976. It used solar energy to pump water from a river, lake, or stream. [1] The purpose of this apparatus is to “provide a low-cost, low-technology pump having particular utility in irrigation systems employed in underdeveloped arid regions of the earth…[using] the basic principles of the Stirling heat engine“.

7. How to make a handmade solar eclipse view box if you can't ...

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   Don't have solar eclipse glasses? No problem. You can make your own solar eclipse viewer box at home, whether with a pinhole projector or a colander.