Solar Energy

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Solar Energy
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How it Works

• http//www.alternate-energy-sources.com/what-is-so
  lar-energy.html
• What is solar energy, you ask? Simply, it is
  energy provided from the sun.
• Our big friendly giant up there.
• Solar power is everywhere.
• http//www1.eere.energy.gov/solar/csp.html
• Concentrating Solar Power
• Concentrating solar power (CSP) technologies use
  mirrors to reflect and concentrate sunlight onto
  receivers that collect the solar energy and
  convert it to heat. This thermal energy can then
  be used to produce electricity a steam turbine or
  heat engine driving a generator

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How it Works

• The solar power from the sun hits the solar
  panels which make thermal heat that goes to the
  battery charger which goes to the battery which
  goes to the DC LOADS

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A specific place or technology

• http//www1.eere.energy.gov/solar/csp.html
• A section of the parabolic troughs from the
  Nevada Solar One project near Boulder City,
  Nevada. The site covers about 300 acres and
  contains 760 mirror arrays.

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A specific place or technology

• http//www1.eere.energy.gov/solar/csp_research.ht
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• Aerial view of part of the National Solar Thermal
  Test Facility at Sandia National Laboratories,
  Albuquerque, New Mexico.

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Advantages of using your alternative

• http//www.sei.ie/Schools/Secondary_Schools/Subjec
  ts/Geography_JC/Pros_Cons1/ Solar power Is the
  Sun if we dont have the sun than we freeze so it
  makes since that for something we are so
  dependent on we should use it as a resource it
  would be easy but it would take money to build
  the solar panels that are used to soak up the
  suns energy. And as you know money is hard to
  get but ,it should get easier. It is also a
  renewable resource but unless the sun burns out
  we should be in good shape. And there is no air
  or water pollution.

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Disadvantages of using your alternative

• http//www.sei.ie/Schools/Secondary_Schools/Subjec
  ts/Geography_JC/Pros_Cons1/ Depends on sunlight
  all the time and we dont have sun all day.
• Not really cost effective at present.
• Storage and back-up are necessary.

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Advertisement about your alternative

• Look how easy it is the sun, solar panels, and
  then energy it is the resource of the FUTURE! It
  shouldnt be that hard and when we get our
  economy turned around we should use it as a main
  resource the only thing not efficient is it
  doesnt work at night .
• BUT, if we can store the energy and save it for
  night it should be, THE WAY OF THE
  FUTURE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Sources

• http//www.sei.ie/Schools/Secondary_Schools/Subjec
  ts/Geography_JC/Pros_Cons1/
• http//www1.eere.energy.gov/solar/csp_research.htm
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• http//www1.eere.energy.gov/solar/csp.html
• www.alternate-energy-sources.com/what-is-solar-ene
  rgy.html/
• http//images.google.com/images?gbv2hlenqsola
  rpanels
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  renergy
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