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Abram Ioffe
Abram Fedorovich Ioffe (p; – 14 October 1960) was a prominent Russian/Soviet physicist.
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Active solar
Solar hot water systems use pumps or fans to circulate fluid (often a mixture of water and glycol to prevent freezing during winter periods) or air, through solar collectors, and are therefore classified under active solar technology.
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Adolf Goetzberger
Adolf Goetzberger (born November 29, 1928 in Munich) is a German physicist.
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Agency for Non-conventional Energy and Rural Technology
The Agency for Non-Conventional Energy and Rural Technology (ANERT) is a government agency in the Kerala, India.
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Air mass (solar energy)
The air mass coefficient defines the direct optical path length through the Earth's atmosphere, expressed as a ratio relative to the path length vertically upwards, i.e. at the zenith.
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Alamosa photovoltaic power plant
Alamosa photovoltaic power plant, is an 8.22 MWp photovoltaic power plant located in San Luis Valley, Colorado, USA.
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American Solar Challenge
The American Solar Challenge (ASC), previously known as the North American Solar Challenge and Sunrayce, is a solar car race across the United States.
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Ancient history
Ancient history is the aggregate of past events, "History" from the beginning of recorded human history and extending as far as the Early Middle Ages or the post-classical history.
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Andasol Solar Power Station
The Andasol solar power station is a 150-megawatt (MW) concentrated solar power station and Europe's first commercial plant to use parabolic troughs.
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Andrew Blakers
Professor Andrew Blakers, is Director of the Australian National University Centre for Sustainable Energy Systems, which employs 60 staff.
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Armin Aberle
Armin Aberle (born 13 December 1960) is an Australian-German semiconductor scientist and full professor at the National University of Singapore in the field of photovoltaics and solar energy, particularly thin film solar cells.
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Artificial photosynthesis
Artificial photosynthesis is a chemical process that replicates the natural process of photosynthesis, a process that converts sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide into carbohydrates and oxygen; as an imitation of a natural process it is biomimetic.
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AstroFlight Sunrise
The AstroFlight Sunrise was an unmanned experimental electric aircraft technology demonstrator and the first aircraft to fly on solar power.
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Augustin Mouchot
Augustin Mouchot (7 April 1825 – 4 October 1912) was a 19th-century French inventor of the earliest solar-powered engine, converting solar energy into mechanical steam power.
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Auroville
Auroville (City of Dawn) is an experimental township in Viluppuram district mostly in the state of Tamil Nadu, India with some parts in the Union Territory of Puducherry in South India.
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Beneixama photovoltaic power plant
Beneixama photovoltaic power plant is a 20 MW photovoltaic power plant located in Beneixama, Spain.
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Bloomberg Businessweek
Bloomberg Businessweek is an American weekly business magazine published by Bloomberg L.P. Businessweek was founded in 1929.
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Blue Sky Solar Racing
Blue Sky Solar Racing is a student-run initiative at the University of Toronto.
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Blythe Photovoltaic Power Plant
The 21 megawatt Blythe Photovoltaic Power Plant is a photovoltaic (PV) solar project in California.
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BP Solar
BP Solar was a manufacturer and installer of photovoltaic solar cells headquartered in Madrid, Spain, with production facilities in India and the People's Republic of China.
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Brian Norton (engineer)
Brian Norton (born 1955) is a college president and solar energy technologist.
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BrightSource Energy
BrightSource Energy, Inc. is an Oakland, California based, corporation that designs, builds, finances, and operates utility-scale solar power plants.
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Building-integrated photovoltaics
Building-integrated photovoltaics (BIPV) are photovoltaic materials that are used to replace conventional building materials in parts of the building envelope such as the roof, skylights, or facades.
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Cadmium telluride
Cadmium telluride (CdTe) is a stable crystalline compound formed from cadmium and tellurium.
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Cadmium telluride photovoltaics
Cadmium telluride (CdTe) photovoltaics describes a photovoltaic (PV) technology that is based on the use of cadmium telluride, a thin semiconductor layer designed to absorb and convert sunlight into electricity.
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Calvin Souther Fuller
Calvin Souther Fuller (May 25, 1902 – October 28, 1994) was a physical chemist at AT&T Bell Laboratories where he worked for 37 years from 1930 to 1967.
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Carbon nanotubes in photovoltaics
Organic photovoltaic devices (OPVs) are fabricated from thin films of organic semiconductors, such as polymers and small-molecule compounds, and are typically on the order of 100 nm thick.
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Central solar heating
Central solar heating is the provision of central heating and hot water from solar energy by a system in which the water is heated centrally by arrays of solar thermal collectors (central solar heating plants - CSHPs) and distributed through district heating pipe networks (or 'block heating' systems in the case of smaller installations).
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Charles Fritts
Charles Fritts (1850 – 1903) was the American inventor credited with creating the first working Selenium Cell in 1883.
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Clint Wilder
Clint Wilder is a business journalist who has covered the high-tech and clean-tech industries since 1985.
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Community solar farm
A community solar farm or garden is a solar power installation that accepts capital from and provides output credit and tax benefits to individual and other investors.
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Compact linear Fresnel reflector
A compact linear Fresnel reflector (CLFR) – also referred to as a concentrating linear Fresnel reflector – is a specific type of linear Fresnel reflector (LFR) technology.
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Concentrated solar power
Concentrated solar power (also called concentrating solar power, concentrated solar thermal, and CSP) systems generate solar power by using mirrors or lenses to concentrate a large area of sunlight, or solar thermal energy, onto a small area.
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Concentrator photovoltaics
Concentrator photovoltaics (CPV) (also known as Concentration Photovoltaics) is a photovoltaic technology that generates electricity from sunlight.
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Copper in renewable energy
Renewable energy sources such as solar, wind, tidal, hydro, biomass, and geothermal have become significant sectors of the energy market.
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Copper indium gallium selenide solar cells
A copper indium gallium selenide solar cell (or CIGS cell, sometimes CI(G)S or CIS cell) is a thin-film solar cell used to convert sunlight into electric power.
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Copper Mountain Solar Facility
The Copper Mountain Solar Facility is a 458 MWp solar photovoltaic power plant in Boulder City, Nevada.
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Cost of electricity by source
In electrical power generation, the distinct ways of generating electricity incur significantly different costs.
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Crookes radiometer
The Crookes radiometer, also known as a light mill, consists of an airtight glass bulb, containing a partial vacuum.
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Darren Kimura
Darren T. Kimura (born September 10, 1974, Hilo, Hawaii) is an American businessman, inventor, and investor.
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Darro Solar Park
Darro Solar Park, also referred to as Solarpark Darro, is a 5.8 MWp photovoltaic power plant located in Darro, Spain.
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David Faiman
David Faiman (born 1944 in the United Kingdom) is an Israeli engineer and physicist.
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David Mills (solar researcher)
David R. Mills (born 1946) is a researcher who has been active in solar energy research in Australia since 1975, working at the University of Sydney as a Principal Research Fellow till 2005.
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Daylighting
Daylighting is the practice of placing windows, other openings, and reflective surfaces so that sunlight (direct or indirect) can provide effective internal lighting.
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Denis Hayes
Denis Allen Hayes (born August 29, 1944) is an environmental advocate and proponent of solar power.
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Desalination
Desalination is a process that extracts mineral components from saline water.
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Desertec
DESERTEC was a large-scale project supported by a foundation of the same name and the consortium Dii (Desertec industrial initiative) created in Germany as a limited liability company (GmbH).
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Directorate-General for International Cooperation and Development
The Directorate-General for International Cooperation and Development is one of the departments of the European Commission.
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Don Stephens
Don Stephens is a futurist, eco-home sustainable designer and author.
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Drake Landing Solar Community
The Drake Landing Solar Community (DLSC) is a planned community in Okotoks, Alberta, Canada, equipped with a central solar heating system and other energy efficient technology.
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Duck curve
In commercial-scale electricity generation, the duck curve is a over the course of a day that shows the timing imbalance between peak demand and renewable energy production.
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Dye-sensitized solar cell
A dye-sensitized solar cell (DSSC, DSC, DYSC or Grätzel cell) is a low-cost solar cell belonging to the group of thin film solar cells.
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Effect of Sun angle on climate
The amount of heat energy received at any location on the globe is a direct effect of Sun angle on climate, as the angle at which sunlight strikes the Earth varies by location, time of day, and season due to the Earth's orbit around the Sun and the Earth's rotation around its tilted axis.
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Electric aircraft
An electric aircraft is an aircraft powered by electric motors.
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Electric boat
While a significant majority of water vessels are powered by diesel engines, with sail power and gasoline engines also popular, boats powered by electricity have been used for over 120 years.
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Elon Musk
Elon Reeve Musk (born June 28, 1971) is an American business magnate, investor and engineer.
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Energy
In physics, energy is the quantitative property that must be transferred to an object in order to perform work on, or to heat, the object.
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Energy tower (downdraft)
The energy tower is a device for producing electrical power.
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Erlasee Solar Park
The Erlasee Solar Park, or Solarstrompark Gut Erlasee, is an 11.4 megawatt (MW) photovoltaic power station located in Bavaria, southern Germany, in one of the sunniest regions of the country.
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Eurosolar
Eurosolar is the non-profit European Association for Renewable Energy (Europäische Vereinigung für Erneuerbare Energien) that conducts its work independently of political parties, institutions, commercial enterprises, and interest groups.
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Félix Trombe
Felix Trombe (1906 in Nogent, France – 1985 in Ganties, France) was a French engineer.
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Feed-in tariff
A feed-in tariff (FIT, FiT, standard offer contract, Couture, T., Cory, K., Kreycik, C., Williams, E., (2010). National Renewable Energy Laboratory, U.S. Dept. of Energy advanced renewable tariff, or renewable energy payments) is a policy mechanism designed to accelerate investment in renewable energy technologies.
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Financial incentives for photovoltaics
Financial incentives for photovoltaics are incentives offered to electricity consumers to install and operate solar-electric generating systems, also known as photovoltaics (PV).
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First Solar
First Solar, Inc. is an American photovoltaic (PV) manufacturer of rigid thin film modules, or solar panels, and a provider of utility-scale PV power plants and supporting services that include finance, construction, maintenance and end-of-life panel recycling. First Solar uses cadmium telluride (CdTe) as a semiconductor to produce CdTe-panels, that are competing successfully with conventional crystalline silicon technology. In 2009, First Solar became the first solar panel manufacturing company to lower its manufacturing cost to $1 per watt and produced CdTe-panels with an efficiency of about 14 percent at a reported cost of 59 cents per watt in 2013. The company was founded in 1990 by inventor Harold McMaster as Solar Cells, Inc. and the Florida Corporation in 1993 with JD Polk. In 1999 it was purchased by True North Partners, LLC, who rebranded it as First Solar, Inc. The company went public in 2006, trading on the NASDAQ. Its current chief executive is Mark Widmar, who succeeded the previous CEO James Hughes July 1, 2016. First Solar is based in Tempe, Arizona. As of 2010, First Solar was considered the second-largest maker of PV modules worldwide and ranked sixth in Fast Company’s list of the world's 50 most innovative companies. In 2011, it ranked first on Forbes’s list of America’s 25 fastest-growing technology companies. It is listed on the Photovoltaik Global 30 Index since the beginning of this stock index in 2009. The company was also listed as No. 1 in Solar Power World magazine’s 2012 and 2013 rankings of solar contractors.
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Flexible solar cell research
Flexible solar cell research is a research-level technology, an example of which was created at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in which solar cells are manufactured by depositing photovoltaic material on flexible substrates, such as ordinary paper, using chemical vapor deposition technology.
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Formation and evolution of the Solar System
The formation and evolution of the Solar System began 4.6 billion years ago with the gravitational collapse of a small part of a giant molecular cloud.
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Francois Villette
François Villette (1621- 1698) was an engineer, optician and fireworks expert at the court of Louis XIV of France.
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Frank Shuman
Frank Shuman (January 23, 1862 – April 28, 1918) was an American inventor, engineer and solar energy pioneer known for his work on solar engines, especially those that used solar energy to heat water that would produce steam.
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Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems
The Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE (or Fraunhofer ISE) is an institute of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft.
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Frisian Solar Challenge
The Frisian Solar Boat Challenge is a solar boat race.
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Göttelborn Solar Park
Gottelborn Solar Park (Solarpark Zeche Göttelborn) is a 8.4-MWp photovoltaic power station located in Göttelborn, in Quierschied municipality, Germany.
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Geomagnetic storm
A geomagnetic storm (commonly referred to as a solar storm) is a temporary disturbance of the Earth's magnetosphere caused by a solar wind shock wave and/or cloud of magnetic field that interacts with the Earth's magnetic field.
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Global dimming
Global dimming is the gradual reduction in the amount of global direct irradiance at the Earth's surface that was observed for several decades after the start of systematic measurements in the 1950s.
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Greenhouse
A greenhouse (also called a glasshouse) is a structure with walls and roof made mainly of transparent material, such as glass, in which plants requiring regulated climatic conditions are grown.
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Grid energy storage
Grid energy storage (also called large-scale energy storage) is a collection of methods used to store electrical energy on a large scale within an electrical power grid.
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Grid-connected photovoltaic power system
A grid-connected photovoltaic power system, or grid-connected PV power system is an electricity generating solar PV power system that is connected to the utility grid.
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Growth of photovoltaics
Worldwide growth of photovoltaics has been an exponential curve between 1992–2017.
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Guadarranque Solar Power Plant
Guadarranque solar power plant (also known as Cádiz solar power plant, Parque Solar Guadarranque, or Planta Solar Guadarranque) is a photovoltaic solar power plant in the Guadarranque industrial park in San Roque, Cádiz, Spain.
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Halo (optical phenomenon)
Halo (from Greek ἅλως, halōs) is the name for a family of optical phenomena produced by sunlight interacting with ice crystals suspended in the atmosphere.
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Hans-Josef Fell
Hans-Josef Fell (born 7 January 1952 in Hammelburg, German) was a member of the German Parliamentary Group Alliance 90/ the Greens from 1998 to 2013.
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Harish Hande
Harish Hande (Handerto Harish Hande) is an Indian social entrepreneur, who co-founded SELCO India in 1995.
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Heat
In thermodynamics, heat is energy transferred from one system to another as a result of thermal interactions.
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Helioseismology
Helioseismology, a term coined by Douglas Gough, is the study of the structure and dynamics of the Sun through its oscillations.
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Heliostat
A heliostat (from helios, the Greek word for sun, and stat, as in stationary) is a device that includes a mirror, usually a plane mirror, which turns so as to keep reflecting sunlight toward a predetermined target, compensating for the sun's apparent motions in the sky.
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Hermann Scheer
Hermann Scheer (29 April 1944 – 14 October 2010) was a Social Democrat member of the German Bundestag (parliament), President of Eurosolar (European Association for Renewable Energy) and General Chairman of the World Council for Renewable Energy.
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Horace-Bénédict de Saussure
Portrait of Horace-Bénédict de Saussure (after the picture by Juehl, in the Library at Geneva) Horace-Bénédict de Saussure (17 February 1740 – 22 January 1799) was a Swiss geologist, meteorologist, physicist, mountaineer and Alpine explorer, often called the founder of alpinism and modern meteorology, and considered to be the first person to build a successful solar oven.
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Hybrid solar cell
Hybrid solar cells combine advantages of both organic and inorganic semiconductors.
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Hybrid solar lighting
Hybrid solar lighting (HSL) or hybrid lighting systems combine the use of solar with artificial light for interior illumination by channelling sunlight through fiber optic cable bundles to provide solar light into rooms without windows or skylights, and by supplementing this natural light with artificial light—typically LED—as required.
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Institute of Energy Conversion
The Institute of Energy Conversion (IEC), located at the University of Delaware is the oldest solar energy research institute in the world.
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International Energy Agency
The International Energy Agency (IEA) (Agence internationale de l'énergie) is a Paris-based autonomous intergovernmental organization established in the framework of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in 1974 in the wake of the 1973 oil crisis.
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International Solar Alliance
The International Solar Alliance (ISA) is an alliance of more than 121 countries, most of them being sunshine countries, which lie either completely or partly between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn.
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International Solar Energy Society
The International Solar Energy Society (ISES) is a global organization for promoting the development and utilisation of renewable energy.
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Ivanpah Solar Power Facility
The Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System is a concentrated solar thermal plant in the Mojave Desert.
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James Strock
James Strock (born August 19, 1956) is an American entrepreneur, author, speaker, and former senior-level public official.
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Jeff Siegel
Jeff Siegel is an American financial writer, publisher and musician.
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Jeremy Leggett
Jeremy Leggett (born 1954) is a British social entrepreneur and writer.
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Jigar Shah
Jigar Shah (born August 30, 1974) is a clean energy entrepreneur in creating market-driven solutions and eliminating market barriers to address climate change.
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Joel Makower
Joel Makower (born 19 February 1952 in Oakland, California) is an entrepreneur, writer, and strategist on sustainable business, clean technology, and green marketing.
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Life (magazine)
Life was an American magazine that ran regularly from 1883 to 1972 and again from 1978 to 2000.
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Light
Light is electromagnetic radiation within a certain portion of the electromagnetic spectrum.
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Light tube
Light tubes (also known as light pipes or tubular skylights) are physical structures used for transmitting or distributing natural or artificial light for the purpose of illumination, and are examples of optical waveguides.
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List of photovoltaic power stations
The following is a list of photovoltaic power stations that are larger than 150 megawatts (MW) in current net capacity.
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List of photovoltaics companies
This is a list of notable photovoltaics (PV) companies.
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List of solar car teams
This is a list of solar car racing teams.
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List of solar thermal power stations
This is a list of the largest facilities generating electricity through the use of solar thermal power, specifically concentrated solar power.
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Lyndon Rive
Lyndon Rive is the co-founder of SolarCity and served as its CEO until 2017.
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MacCready Gossamer Penguin
The Gossamer Penguin was a solar-powered experimental aircraft created by Paul MacCready's AeroVironment.
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MacCready Solar Challenger
The Solar Challenger was a solar-powered electric aircraft designed by Paul MacCready's AeroVironment.
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Magnetic sail
A magnetic sail or magsail is a proposed method of spacecraft propulsion which would use a static magnetic field to deflect charged particles radiated by the Sun as a plasma wind, and thus impart momentum to accelerate the spacecraft.
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Martin Green (professor)
Martin Andrew Green AM ForMemRS (born 20 July 1948) is an Australian professor at the University of New South Wales who works on solar energy.
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Mauro Solar Riser
The Mauro Solar Riser is an American biplane ultralight electric aircraft that was the first manned aircraft to fly on solar power.
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Max Deml
Max Deml (born 1957) is a German-Austrian writer for environmental and financial magazines, publisher and entrepreneur.
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Maximum power point tracking
Maximum power point tracking (MPPT) or sometimes just power point tracking (PPT)) is a technique used commonly with wind turbines and photovoltaic (PV) solar systems to maximize power extraction under all conditions. Although solar power is mainly covered, the principle applies generally to sources with variable power: for example, optical power transmission and thermophotovoltaics. PV solar systems exist in many different configurations with regard to their relationship to inverter systems, external grids, battery banks, or other electrical loads. Regardless of the ultimate destination of the solar power, though, the central problem addressed by MPPT is that the efficiency of power transfer from the solar cell depends on both the amount of sunlight falling on the solar panels and the electrical characteristics of the load. As the amount of sunlight varies, the load characteristic that gives the highest power transfer efficiency changes, so that the efficiency of the system is optimized when the load characteristic changes to keep the power transfer at highest efficiency. This load characteristic is called the maximum power point (MPP) and MPPT is the process of finding this point and keeping the load characteristic there. Electrical circuits can be designed to present arbitrary loads to the photovoltaic cells and then convert the voltage, current, or frequency to suit other devices or systems, and MPPT solves the problem of choosing the best load to be presented to the cells in order to get the most usable power out. Solar cells have a complex relationship between temperature and total resistance that produces a non-linear output efficiency which can be analyzed based on the I-V curve. It is the purpose of the MPPT system to sample the output of the PV cells and apply the proper resistance (load) to obtain maximum power for any given environmental conditions. MPPT devices are typically integrated into an electric power converter system that provides voltage or current conversion, filtering, and regulation for driving various loads, including power grids, batteries, or motors.
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Michael Boxwell
Michael Boxwell (born 1 February 1970) is an eco-technology author who has written the books Owning an Electric Car, Solar Electricity Handbook and Proof of Delivery Buyer's Guide, all published by Greenstream Publishing.
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Monica Oliphant
Monica Viviene Oliphant (born 4 August 1940 in Ilford) is a British–Australian research scientist, specialising in solar energy.
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Moura Photovoltaic Power Station
The Moura Photovoltaic Power Station (also known as Amareleja Photovoltaic Power Station) is a large photovoltaic power station in Amareleja, in the municipality of Moura, Portugal.
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Multi-junction solar cell
Multi-junction (MJ) solar cells are solar cells with multiple p–n junctions made of different semiconductor materials.
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Nanocrystal solar cell
Nanocrystal solar cells are solar cells based on a substrate with a coating of nanocrystals.
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Natural resource
Natural resources are resources that exist without actions of humankind.
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Net metering
Net metering (or net energy metering, NEM) allows consumers who generate some or all of their own electricity to use that electricity anytime, instead of when it is generated.
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Nevada Solar One
Nevada Solar One is a concentrated solar power plant, with a nominal capacity of 64 MW and maximum steam turbine power output up to 72 MW net (75 MW gross), spread over an area of.
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Nominal power (photovoltaic)
The nominal power is the nameplate capacity of photovoltaic (PV) devices, such as solar cells, panels and systems, and is determined by measuring the electric current and voltage in a circuit, while varying the resistance under precisely defined conditions.
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Olmedilla Photovoltaic Park
The Olmedilla Photovoltaic Park is a 60-megawatt (MW) photovoltaic power plant, located in Olmedilla de Alarcón, Spain.
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Organic solar cell
An organic solar cell or plastic solar cell is a type of photovoltaic that uses organic electronics, a branch of electronics that deals with conductive organic polymers or small organic molecules, for light absorption and charge transport to produce electricity from sunlight by the photovoltaic effect.
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Outline (list)
An outline, also called a hierarchical outline, is a list arranged to show hierarchical relationships and is a type of tree structure.
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Panoche Valley Solar Farm
Panoche Valley Solar Farm is a 130 megawatt (MW), utility-scale solar photovoltaic power station under construction in the Panoche Valley of Central California's San Benito County.
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Parabolic reflector
A parabolic (or paraboloid or paraboloidal) reflector (or dish or mirror) is a reflective surface used to collect or project energy such as light, sound, or radio waves.
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Parabolic trough
A parabolic trough is a type of solar thermal collector that is straight in one dimension and curved as a parabola in the other two, lined with a polished metal mirror.
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Passive house
Passive house (Passivhaus) is a rigorous, voluntary standard for energy efficiency in a building, which reduces the building's ecological footprint.
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Passive solar building design
In passive solar building design, windows, walls, and floors are made to collect, store, reflect, and distribute solar energy in the form of heat in the winter and reject solar heat in the summer.
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Phase-change material
A phase change material (PCM) is a substance with a high heat of fusion which, melting and solidifying at a certain temperature, is capable of storing and releasing large amounts of energy.
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Phil Radford
Philip David Radford (born January 2, 1976) is an American environmental, clean energy and democracy leader who served as the youngest executive director of Greenpeace USA.
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Photoelectric effect
The photoelectric effect is the emission of electrons or other free carriers when light shines on a material.
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Photosynthesis
Photosynthesis is a process used by plants and other organisms to convert light energy into chemical energy that can later be released to fuel the organisms' activities (energy transformation).
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Photovoltaic keyboard
A photovoltaic keyboard is a wireless computer keyboard that charges its batteries from a light source such as the sun or interior lighting, addressing a major drawback of wireless computer peripherals that otherwise require regular replacement of discharged batteries.
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Photovoltaic mounting system
Photovoltaic mounting systems (also called solar module racking) are used to fix solar panels on surfaces like roofs, building facades, or the ground.
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Photovoltaic power station
A photovoltaic power station, also known as a solar park, is a large-scale photovoltaic system (PV system) designed for the supply of merchant power into the electricity grid.
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Photovoltaic system
A photovoltaic system, also PV system or solar power system, is a power system designed to supply usable solar power by means of photovoltaics.
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Photovoltaic thermal hybrid solar collector
Photovoltaic thermal hybrid solar collectors, sometimes known as hybrid PV/T systems or PVT, are systems that convert solar radiation into thermal and electrical energy.
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Photovoltaics
Photovoltaics (PV) is a term which covers the conversion of light into electricity using semiconducting materials that exhibit the photovoltaic effect, a phenomenon studied in physics, photochemistry, and electrochemistry.
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Plasmonic solar cell
A plasmonic-enhanced solar cell is a type of solar cell (including thin-film, crystalline silicon, amorphous silicon, and other types of cells) that convert light into electricity with the assistance of plasmons.
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Pocking Solar Park
The Pocking Solar Park is a photovoltaic power station in Pocking, Lower Bavaria, Germany.
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Polarizing organic photovoltaics
Polarizing organic photovoltaics (ZOPV) is a concept for harvesting energy from Liquid crystal display screens, developed by engineers from UCLA.
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Polycrystalline silicon
Polycrystalline silicon, also called polysilicon or poly-Si, is a high purity, polycrystalline form of silicon, used as a raw material by the solar photovoltaic and electronics industry.
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Polytunnel
A polytunnel (also known as a polyhouse, hoop greenhouse or hoophouse, grow tunnel or high tunnel) is a tunnel typically made from steel and covered in polythene, usually semi-circular, square or elongated in shape.
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PS10 solar power plant
The PS10 Solar Power Plant (Planta Solar 10), is the world's first commercial concentrating solar power tower operating near Seville, in Andalusia, Spain.
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Puertollano Photovoltaic Park
The Puertollano Photovoltaic Park is the fourth largest photovoltaic power station in the world, with a nominal capacity of 47.6 MW.
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Qinetiq Zephyr
The Airbus Zephyr is a series of lightweight solar-powered UAV originally designed and built in 2003 by the British company, QinetiQ.
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Quantum dot solar cell
A quantum dot solar cell (QDSC) is a solar cell design that uses quantum dots as the absorbing photovoltaic material.
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Radiation pressure
Radiation pressure is the pressure exerted upon any surface due to the exchange of momentum between the object and the electromagnetic field.
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Rechargeable battery
A rechargeable battery, storage battery, secondary cell, or accumulator is a type of electrical battery which can be charged, discharged into a load, and recharged many times, as opposed to a disposable or primary battery, which is supplied fully charged and discarded after use.
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Reiner Lemoine
Reiner Lemoine (2 February 1949 – 6 December 2006) was a German entrepreneur in the area of renewable energy.
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Renewable energy
Renewable energy is energy that is collected from renewable resources, which are naturally replenished on a human timescale, such as sunlight, wind, rain, tides, waves, and geothermal heat.
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Renewable resource
A renewable resource is a natural resource which replenishes to overcome resource depletion caused by usage and consumption, either through biological reproduction or other naturally recurring processes in a finite amount of time in a human time scale.
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Right to light
Right to light is a form of easement in English law that gives a long-standing owner of a building with windows a right to maintain the level of illumination.
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Roland Winston
Roland Winston is a leading figure in the field of nonimaging optics and its applications to solar energy, and is sometimes termed the "father of non-imaging optics".
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Ron Pernick
Ron Pernick is an American author and the co-founder and managing director of Clean Edge, a Portland, Oregon research and advisory firm that monitors clean technology markets.
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Rooftop photovoltaic power station
A rooftop photovoltaic power station, or rooftop PV system, is a photovoltaic system that has its electricity-generating solar panels mounted on the rooftop of a residential or commercial building or structure.
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Row cover
In agriculture and gardening, row cover is any transparent or semi-transparent, flexible material, like fabric or plastic sheeting, used as a protective covering to shield plants, usually vegetables, primarily from the undesirable effects of cold and wind, and also from insect damage.
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Salt evaporation pond
San Francisco Bay salt ponds salar'' is rich in lithium, and the mine concentrates the brine in the ponds Contemporary solar evaporation salt pans on the island of Lanzarote at Salinas de Janubio Solar evaporation ponds in the Atacama Desert Solar evaporation ponds in the Salt Valley of Añana, Spain Solar evaporation ponds in the Salt Valley of Añana, Spain A salt evaporation pond is a shallow artificial salt pan designed to extract salts from sea water or other brines.
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Sandia National Laboratories
The Sandia National Laboratories (SNL), managed and operated by the National Technology and Engineering Solutions of Sandia (a wholly owned subsidiary of Honeywell International), is one of three National Nuclear Security Administration research and development laboratories.
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Seasonal thermal energy storage
Seasonal thermal energy storage (or STES) is the storage of heat or cold for periods of up to several months.
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Serpa solar power plant
Construction of the 11 megawatt Serpa solar power plant began in June 2006 and was completed as planned in January 2007, at the cost of 58 million euro.
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Shel Horowitz
Shel Horowitz is an American author, international speaker, and marketing consultant.
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Shi Zhengrong
Shi Zhengrong (born on February 10, 1963) is a Chinese-Australian businessman.
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Smart highway
Smart highway and smart road are terms for a number of different proposals to incorporate technologies into roads for generating solar energy, for improving the operation of autonomous cars, for lighting, and for monitoring the condition of the road.
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Soil solarization
Soil solarization is an environmentally friendly method of using solar power for controlling pests such as soilborne plant pathogens including fungi, bacteria, nematodes, and insect and mite pests along with weed seed and seedlings in the soil by mulching the soil and covering it with tarp, usually with a transparent polyethylene cover, to trap solar energy.
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Solar Academy International
Solar Academy International is a global Solar energy training school network.
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Solar air conditioning
Solar air conditioning refers to any air conditioning (cooling) system that uses solar power.
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Solar and Heliospheric Observatory
The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) is a spacecraft built by a European industrial consortium led by Matra Marconi Space (now Astrium) that was launched on a Lockheed Martin Atlas II AS launch vehicle on December 2, 1995, to study the Sun, and has discovered over 3000 comets.
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Solar architecture
Solar architecture is an architecture approach that takes in account the Sun to harness clean and renewable solar power.
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Solar Ark
The Solar Ark (ソーラーアーク) is an ark-shaped solar photovoltaic power generation facility which offers activities to cultivate a better appreciation of solar power generation, and thereby benefitting both ecology and science.
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Solar azimuth angle
The solar azimuth angle is the azimuth angle of the Sun's position.
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Solar backpack
A typical solar backpack A Solar backpack is a backpack equipped with thin film solar cells and batteries.
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Solar balloon
A solar balloon is a balloon that gains buoyancy when the air inside is heated by solar radiation, usually with the help of black or dark balloon material.
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Solar cable
A solar cable is the interconnection cable used in photovoltaic power generation.
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Solar car
A solar car is a solar vehicle used for land transport.
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Solar car racing
Solar car racing refers to competitive races of electric vehicles which are powered by solar energy obtained from solar panels on the surface of the car (solar cars).
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Solar cell
A solar cell, or photovoltaic cell, is an electrical device that converts the energy of light directly into electricity by the photovoltaic effect, which is a physical and chemical phenomenon.
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Solar cell efficiency
Solar cell efficiency refers to the portion of energy in the form of sunlight that can be converted via photovoltaics into electricity.
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Solar cell phone charger
Solar cell phone chargers use solar panels to charge cell phone batteries.
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Solar cell research
There are currently many research groups active in the field of photovoltaics in universities and research institutions around the world.
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Solar challenge
Solar challenge refers to races between solar powered vehicles, such as.
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Solar charger
Solar charger integrated into a backpack A solar charger employs solar energy to supply electricity to devices or charge batteries.
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Solar chemical
Solar chemical refers to a number of possible processes that harness solar energy by absorbing sunlight in a chemical reaction.
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Solar chimney
A solar chimney often referred to as a thermal chimney is a way of improving the natural ventilation of buildings by using convection of air heated by passive solar energy.
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Solar combisystem
A solar combisystem provides both solar space heating and cooling as well as hot water from a common array of solar thermal collectors, usually backed up by an auxiliary non-solar heat source.
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Solar constant
The solar constant is a flux density measuring mean solar electromagnetic radiation (solar irradiance) per unit area.
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Solar controller
A solar controller is an electronic device that controls the circulating pump in a solar hot water system to harvest as much heat as possible from the solar panels and protect the system from overheating.
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Solar cooker
A solar cooker is a device which uses the energy of direct sunlight to heat, cook or pasteurise drink and other food materials.
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Solar Cup
The Solar Cup is an eco-boating competition in Temecula, California.
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Solar cycle
The solar cycle or solar magnetic activity cycle is the nearly periodic 11-year change in the Sun's activity (including changes in the levels of solar radiation and ejection of solar material) and appearance (changes in the number and size of sunspots, flares, and other manifestations).
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Solar Decathlon
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Solar Decathlon is an international collegiate competition made up of 10 contests that challenge student teams to design and build full-size, solar-powered houses.
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Solar desalination
Solar desalination is a technique to desalinate water using solar energy.
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Solar easement
A solar easement is a right, expressed as an easement, restriction, covenant, or condition contained in any deed, contract, or other written instrument executed by or on behalf of any landowner for the purpose of assuring adequate access to direct sunlight for solar energy systems.
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Solar eclipse
A solar eclipse (as seen from the planet Earth) is a type of eclipse that occurs when the Moon passes between the Sun and Earth, and when the Moon fully or partially blocks ("occults") the Sun.
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Solar energy
Solar energy is radiant light and heat from the Sun that is harnessed using a range of ever-evolving technologies such as solar heating, photovoltaics, solar thermal energy, solar architecture, molten salt power plants and artificial photosynthesis.
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Solar Energy (journal)
Solar Energy is a peer-reviewed scientific journal covering research on solar energy such as photovoltaics and solar heating, but also its indirect usages like wind power or bioenergy.
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Solar Energy Generating Systems
Solar Energy Generating Systems (SEGS) in California, with the combined capacity from three separate locations at 354 megawatts (MW, 474,700 hp), is now the world's second largest solar thermal energy generating facility, after the commissioning of the even larger Ivanpah facility in 2014.
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Solar energy in the European Union
Solar energy in the European Union consists of photovoltaics (PV) and solar thermal energy.
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Solar Energy Industries Association
The Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA), established in 1974, is a national non-profit trade association of the solar-energy industry in the United States.
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Solar flare
A solar flare is a sudden flash of increased Sun's brightness, usually observed near its surface.
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Solar flower tower
AORA's Solar Flower Tower is a hybrid power generator that utilizes solar and alternative fuels, including diesel fuel, natural gas, liquefied natural gas, biogas, and other biofuels, to provide a constant green power source targeted for community-sized production.
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Solar furnace
A solar furnace is a structure that uses concentrated solar power to produce high temperatures, usually for industry.
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Solar golf cart
Solar golf carts are golf carts powered by mounting a photovoltaic (PV) or thin film panel on top of the existing roof or using a PV panel as the roof itself.
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Solar hot water in Australia
Solar hot water is water heated using only natural energy from the sun.
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Solar inverter
A solar inverter or PV inverter, is a type of electrical converter which converts the variable direct current (DC) output of a photovoltaic (PV) solar panel into a utility frequency alternating current (AC) that can be fed into a commercial electrical grid or used by a local, off-grid electrical network.
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Solar irradiance
Solar irradiance is the power per unit area received from the Sun in the form of electromagnetic radiation in the wavelength range of the measuring instrument.
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Solar lamp
A solar lamp also known as solar light or solar lantern, is a lighting system composed of an LED lamp, solar panels, battery, charge controller and there may also be an inverter.
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Solar maximum
Solar maximum or solar max is a regular period of greatest Sun activity during the 11-year solar cycle.
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Solar micro-inverter
A solar micro-inverter, or simply microinverter, is a plug-and-play device used in photovoltaics, that converts direct current (DC) generated by a single solar module to alternating current (AC).
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Solar minimum
Solar minimum is the period of least solar activity in the 11 year solar cycle of the sun.
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Solar mirror
A solar mirror contains a substrate with a reflective layer for reflecting the solar energy, and in most cases an interference layer.
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Solar neon
Solar neon is neon that has been made in the Sun and transmitted to Earth as ions in the solar wind.
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Solar notebook
A solar notebook or solar laptop is a laptop computer with batteries that are recharged by a solar panel attached to the notebook.
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Solar Orbiter
Solar Orbiter (SolO) is a planned Sun-observing satellite, under development by the European Space Agency (ESA).
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Solar panel
Photovoltaic solar panels absorb sunlight as a source of energy to generate electricity.
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Solar panels on spacecraft
Spacecraft operating in the inner Solar System usually rely on the use of photovoltaic solar panels to derive electricity from sunlight.
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Solar particle event
A solar proton event (SPE), or "proton storm", occurs when particles (mostly protons) emitted by the Sun become accelerated either close to the Sun during a flare or in interplanetary space by CME shocks.
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Solar pond
A solar pond is a large scale solar thermal collector with an integrated arrangement for storage of heated water.
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Solar power
Solar power is the conversion of energy from sunlight into electricity, either directly using photovoltaics (PV), indirectly using concentrated solar power, or a combination.
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Solar power by country
Many nations have installed significant solar power capacity into their electrical grids to supplement or provide an alternative to conventional energy sources.
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Solar power in Australia
Solar power in Australia is a growing industry.
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Solar power in Canada
Historically, the main applications of solar energy technologies in Canada have been non-electric active solar system applications for space heating, water heating and drying crops and lumber.
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Solar power in China
China is the world's largest market for both photovoltaics and solar thermal energy.
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Solar power in Germany
Solar power in Germany consists almost exclusively of photovoltaics (PV) and accounted for an estimated 6.2 to 6.9 percent of the country's net-electricity generation in 2016.
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Solar power in India
Solar power in India is a fast developing industry.
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Solar power in Israel
The use of solar energy began in Israel in the 1950s with the development by Levi Yissar of a solar water heater to address the energy shortages that plagued the new country.
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Solar power in Italy
Solar power in Italy increased rapidly in the last ten years, reaching an installed capacity that ranks fifth in the world.
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Solar power in Japan
Solar power in Japan has been expanding since the late 1990s.
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Solar power in Pakistan
Pakistan has some of the highest values of insolation in the world, with eight to nine hours of sunshine per day, ideal climatic conditions for solar power generation.
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Solar power in Portugal
At the end of 2013, Portugal had 277.9 MWp of photovoltaics and produced an estimated 437 GWh of electricity which supplied nearly 166 500 homes and saved approximately 107 074 tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions.
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Solar power in Romania
Solar power in Romania had an installed capacity of 1,151 megawatt (MW) as of the end of 2013 – a more than 20 fold increase from 2012.
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Solar power in Spain
Spain is one of the top ten countries by solar photovoltaics installed capacity and the first country for concentrated solar power (CSP) in the world.
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Solar power in the United Kingdom
Solar power represented a very small part of electricity production in United Kingdom until 2011.
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Solar power in the United States
Solar power in the United States includes utility-scale solar power plants as well as local distributed generation, mostly from rooftop photovoltaics.
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Solar power in Turkey
Turkey is located in an advantageous position in the Middle East and Southeast Europe for solar energy.
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Solar power plants in the Mojave Desert
There are several solar power plants in the Mojave Desert which supply power to the electricity grid.
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Solar power tower
The solar power tower, also known as 'central tower' power plants or 'heliostat' power plants or power towers, is a type of solar furnace using a tower to receive the focused sunlight.
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Solar prominence
A prominence is a large, bright, gaseous feature extending outward from the Sun's surface, often in a loop shape.
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Solar road stud
Solar road studs are flashing solar cell powered LED maintenance-free lighting devices used in road construction to delineate road edges and centrelines.
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Solar sail
Solar sails (also called light sails or photon sails) are a proposed method of spacecraft propulsion using radiation pressure exerted by sunlight on large mirrors.
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Solar savings fraction
In discussing solar energy, the solar savings fraction or solar fraction (f) is the amount of energy provided by the solar technology divided by the total energy required.
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Solar shingle
Solar shingles, also called photovoltaic shingles, are solar panels designed to look like and function as conventional roofing materials, such as asphalt shingle or slate, while also producing electricity.
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Solar Splash
Solar Splash is an intercollegiate solar/electric boat competition dedicated to showing the feasibility of solar energy.
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Solar still
A solar still distills water, using the heat of the Sun to evaporate, cool then collect the water.
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Solar street light
Solar street lights are raised light sources which are powered by photovoltaic panels generally mounted on the lighting structure or integrated in the pole itself.
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Solar Team
The University of Calgary Solar Car Team is a multi-disciplinary student-run solar car racing ("raycing") team at the University of Calgary, based in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
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Solar thermal collector
A solar thermal collector collects heat by absorbing sunlight.
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Solar thermal energy
Solar thermal energy (STE) is a form of energy and a technology for harnessing solar energy to generate thermal energy or electrical energy for use in industry, and in the residential and commercial sectors.
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Solar thermal rocket
A solar thermal rocket is a theoretical spacecraft propulsion system that would make use of solar power to directly heat reaction mass, and therefore would not require an electrical generator, like most other forms of solar-powered propulsion do.
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Solar Total Energy Project
The Solar Total Energy Project (STEP) was the world’s first and largest solar thermal cogeneration project having an industrial application.
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Solar tracker
A solar tracker is a device that orients a payload toward the Sun.
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Solar traffic light
Solar traffic lights are signalling devices powered by solar panels positioned at road intersections, pedestrian crossings and other locations to control the flows of traffic.
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Solar tree
A solar tree is a structure incorporating solar energy technology on a single pillar, like a tree trunk.
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Solar Tuki
A solar tuki is a rechargeable solar lighting system that is being implemented in Nepal to replace kerosene lamps commonly used by villagers.
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Solar Umbrella house
The Solar Umbrella House is a private residence in Venice, Los Angeles, California, remodeled using active and passive solar design strategies to enable the house to function independent of the electrical grid.
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Solar updraft tower
The solar updraft tower (SUT) is a design concept for a renewable-energy power plant for generating electricity from low temperature solar heat.
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Solar vehicle
A solar vehicle is an electric vehicle powered completely or significantly by direct solar energy.
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Solar water disinfection
Solar water disinfection (SoDis) is a type of portable water purification that uses solar energy to make biologically-contaminated (e.g. bacteria, viruses, protozoa and worms) water safe to drink.
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Solar water heating
Solar water heating (SWH) is the conversion of sunlight into heat for water heating using a solar thermal collector.
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Solar-Powered Aircraft Developments Solar One
The Solar-Powered Aircraft Developments Solar One is a British mid-wing, experimental, manned solar-powered aircraft that was designed by David Williams and produced by Solar-Powered Aircraft Developments under the direction of Freddie To.
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Solar-powered calculator
Solar-powered calculators are hand-held electronic calculators powered by solar cells mounted on the device.
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Solar-powered desalination unit
A solar-powered desalination unit produces potable water from saline water through direct or indirect methods of desalination powered by sunlight.
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Solar-powered fan
A solar fan is a mechanical fan powered by solar panels.
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Solar-powered flashlight
Solar powered flashlights or solar powered torches are flashlights powered by solar energy stored in rechargeable batteries.
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Solar-powered fountain
A Solar powered fountain is a decorative electrical fountain powered by a solar panel.
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Solar-powered pump
A solar-powered pump is a pump running on electricity generated by photovoltaic panels or the radiated thermal energy available from collected sunlight as opposed to grid electricity or diesel run water pumps.
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Solar-powered radio
A solar powered radio is a portable radio receiver powered by photovoltaic panels.
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Solar-powered refrigerator
A solar-powered refrigerator is a refrigerator which runs on energy directly provided by sun, and may include photovoltaic or solar thermal energy.
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Solar-powered watch
A solar-powered watch or light-powered watch is a watch that is powered entirely or partly by a solar cell.
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Solar-pumped laser
A solar-powered laser is a laser that shares the same optical properties as conventional lasers such as emitting a beam consisting of coherent electromagnetic radiation which can reach high power, but which uses solar radiation for pumping the lasing medium.
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SolarEdge
SolarEdge Technologies Inc. is a provider of power optimizer, solar inverter and monitoring solutions for photovoltaic arrays.
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SolarPACES
SolarPACES (Solar Power and Chemical Energy Systems) is an international cooperative network bringing together teams of national experts from around the world to focus on the development and marketing of Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) systems (also known as solar thermal power systems).
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Solnova Solar Power Station
The Solnova Solar Power Station is a large CSP power station made up of five separate units of each.
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Sopogy
Sopogy was a solar thermal technology supplier founded in 2002 at the Honolulu, Hawaii-based clean technology incubator known as.
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South African Solar Challenge
The South African Solar Challenge is an alternative fuel vehicle auto racing challenge in South Africa, with classes for hybrid vehicles, electric vehicles, solar vehicles, and biofuel-powered vehicles.
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Space-based solar power
Space-based solar power (SBSP) is the concept of collecting solar power in outer space and distributing it to Earth.
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Stefan Krauter
Stefan Krauter (born 1963 in Göppingen, Germany) is Professor and Entrepreneur in the area of Renewable Energies.
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Strasskirchen Solar Park
The Strasskirchen Solar Park is a large photovoltaic power station in Bavaria, with an installed capacity of 54 MW.
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Sun
The Sun is the star at the center of the Solar System.
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Sun tanning
Sun tanning or simply tanning is the process whereby skin color is darkened or tanned.
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Sun-free photovoltaics
Sun-free photovoltaics is a photovoltaics technology which does not require sunlight to produce electricity.
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Sunburn
Sunburn is a form of radiation burn that affects living tissue, such as skin, that results from an overexposure to ultraviolet (UV) radiation, commonly from the sun.
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Sunlight
Sunlight is a portion of the electromagnetic radiation given off by the Sun, in particular infrared, visible, and ultraviolet light.
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Sunmobile
Sunmobile was a model of a solar-powered automobile.
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Sunny Sanwar
Sahibzada Sanwar Azam Sunny (সানওয়ার আজম সানি, born 17 December 1989) is a Bangladeshi-born artist, environmental activist and social entrepreneur.
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Sunscreen
Sunscreen, also known as sunblock, sun cream or suntan lotion, is a lotion, spray, gel or other topical product that absorbs or reflects some of the sun's ultraviolet (UV) radiation and thus helps protect against sunburn.
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Sunshade
Sunshade may refer to.
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T. Boone Pickens
Thomas Boone Pickens Jr. (born May 22, 1928), known as T. Boone Pickens, is an American business magnate and financier. Pickens chairs the hedge fund BP Capital Management. He was a well-known takeover operator and corporate raider during the 1980s. As of November 2016, Pickens has a net worth of $500 million.
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Targray
Targray Technology International Inc., commonly referred to as Targray, is a Canadian multinational chemical and electronic materials corporation headquartered in Kirkland, Quebec that supplies advanced materials and supply chain solutions to the international biofuel, lithium-ion battery, energy storage, and photovoltaics industries.
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The Alliance for Solar Choice
The Alliance for Solar Choice (TASC) leads rooftop solar power advocacy efforts across the United States.
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The Jerusalem Post
The Jerusalem Post is a broadsheet newspaper based in Jerusalem, founded in 1932 during the British Mandate of Palestine by Gershon Agron as The Palestine Post.
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The Quiet Achiever
The Quiet Achiever, also known as the BP Solar Trek, was the world's first practical long-distance solar-powered car powered entirely by photovoltaic solar cells.
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The Solar Car Challenge
The Solar Car Challenge is an annual solar-powered car race for high school students.The event attracts teams from around the world, but mostly from American high schools.
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The Solar Project
The SOLAR Project consists of the Solar One, Solar Two and Solar Tres solar thermal power plants based in the Mojave Desert, United States and Andalucía, Spain.
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Thermal energy storage
Thermal energy storage (TES) is achieved with widely differing technologies.
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Thermal mass
In building design, thermal mass is a property of the mass of a building which enables it to store heat, providing "inertia" against temperature fluctuations.
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Thermodynamic efficiency limit
Thermodynamic efficiency limit is the absolute maximum theoretically possible conversion efficiency of sunlight to electricity.
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Thermoelectric generator
A thermoelectric generator (TEG), also called a Seebeck generator, is a solid state device that converts heat flux (temperature differences) directly into electrical energy through a phenomenon called the Seebeck effect (a form of thermoelectric effect).
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Thermophotovoltaic
Thermophotovoltaic (TPV) energy conversion is a direct conversion process from heat to electricity via photons.
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Thin-film solar cell
A thin-film solar cell is a second generation solar cell that is made by depositing one or more thin layers, or thin film (TF) of photovoltaic material on a substrate, such as glass, plastic or metal.
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Third-generation photovoltaic cell
Third-generation photovoltaic cells are solar cells that are potentially able to overcome the Shockley–Queisser limit of 31–41% power efficiency for single bandgap solar cells.
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Timeline of solar cells
The timeline of solar cells began in the 19th century when it is observed that the sunlight striking certain materials generates detectable electric current.
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Tom Dinwoodie
Thomas Linn Dinwoodie (born November 15, 1954) is a cleantech entrepreneur, inventor, and founder of SunPower Corporation Systems (formerly PowerLight Corporation).
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Topaz Solar Farm
Topaz Solar Farm is a 550 MWp photovoltaic power station in San Luis Obispo County, California.
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Tour de Sol
The Tour de Sol in Switzerland was the first rally for solar powered vehicles.
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Trombe wall
A Trombe wall is a passive solar building design where a wall is built on the winter sun side of a building with a glass external layer and a high heat capacity internal layer separated by a layer of air.
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Urban heat island
An urban heat island (UHI) is an urban area or metropolitan area that is significantly warmer than its surrounding rural areas due to human activities.
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Ursula Sladek
Ursula Sladek (1946-09-06) owns a small local power company, Schönau Power Supply, located in Schönau im Schwarzwald, Germany, that provides electricity from renewable energy sources to the German electricity grid.
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Victorian Model Solar Vehicle Challenge
The Victorian Model Solar Vehicle Challenge is a competition held annually at Scienceworks in Melbourne, Australia.
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William C. Tauber
William C. Tauber better known as Bill Tauber, in addition to being a nationally recognized expert on energy reduction and solar power, is a national recognized expert on initial startups, product and concept development and energy management systems award winner.
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Wolfgang Scheffler (inventor)
Wolfgang Scheffler (born 1956) is the inventor/promoter of Scheffler Reflectors, large, flexible parabolic reflecting dishes that concentrate sunlight for solar cooking in community kitchens, bakeries, and in the world's first solar-powered crematorium.
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World Solar Challenge
The World Solar Challenge or the Bridgestone World Solar Challenge since 2013 due to the sponsorship of Bridgestone Corporation is a biennial solar-powered car race which covers through the Australian Outback, from Darwin, Northern Territory to Adelaide, South Australia.
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Wyandot Solar Facility
The 12 megawatt (MW) Wyandot Solar Facility is a solar photovoltaic power plant completed in 2010, located in Salem Township, Wyandot County, Ohio.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline_of_solar_energy
