Category archive: Solar Basic Overview
Solar Basic Overview
Solar History People have been studying how plants convert sunlight into food for many centuries. Around the mid 1800’s the photovoltaic effect was discovered and developed. Copper and Selenium were the principle driving advances in solar power with nothing really changing until the early 1950’s. As vacuum tubes gave way…
Solar Energy
Photovoltaic (PV) systems Solar energy is readily harnessed for low temperature heat, and in many places domestic hot water units (with storage) routinely utilize it. It is also used simply by sensible design of buildings and in many ways that are taken for granted. Industrially, probably the main use is…