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  2. Solar activity and climate - Wikipedia

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    The updated figure (right) shows the variations and contrasts solar cycles 14 and 24, a century apart, that are quite similar in all solar activity measures (in fact cycle 24 is slightly less active than cycle 14 on average), yet the global mean air surface temperature is more than 1 degree Celsius higher for cycle 24 than cycle 14, showing the ...

  3. 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]

  4. Passive daytime radiative cooling - Wikipedia

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    PDRC surfaces can be integrated with solar energy plants, referred to as solar energy–radiative cooling (SE–RC), to improve functionality and performance by preventing solar cells from 'overheating' and thus degrading. Since silicon solar cells have a maximum efficiency of 33.7% (with the average commercial panel reaching around 20%), the ...

  5. Solar thermal energy - Wikipedia

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    Solar thermal energy (STE) is a form of energy and a technology for harnessing solar energy to generate thermal energy for use in industry, and in the residential and commercial sectors. Solar thermal collectors are classified by the United States Energy Information Administration as low-, medium-, or high-temperature collectors.

  6. 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 ...

  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 ...

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