SOLAR ENERGY.
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Paper Abstract:
Advantages: cost factor; inexhaustible source; alternative to oil; pollution-free; non-monopolistic. Types & applications.
Paper Introduction:
SOLAR ENERGY
Energy is a crucial building block for civilization: Without reliable sources of power, modern technology would not exist. Reliability does not always equal availability, however, and the search for renewable or inexhaustible energy sources that also are relatively inexpensive, nonpolluting and available to everyone has become of paramount importance - enter solar energy. This alternative to fossil fuels has all of these advantages and comes in several forms and applications, adaptable to most uses, and as part of the earthos domain (rather than one person's - or one country's - oil field), it is nonmonopolistic.
Solar technology operates on different principles, depending on the type of system used. For example, active solar systems use mechanical means such as solar collectors, pumps and fans to
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however and the search for renewableor inexhaustible all of theseadvantages and comes in several forms and applications used For example active solar systems electrical energy but solar thermal technology relies on an rooms or pool laundry or showerwater The collector itself mechanical pump to a storage medium rocks for energy is widespread However passive solar systems and space heating respectively The use and generally keeping the heatout Attached greenhouses can serve as comparedwith the price of setting up an active solar-power for use in a power-generating cycle One create steam todrive a turbine generator Alternatively sun-tracking mirrors can in scope as powering an individual homeand produces anelectric current The semiconductor film used to convert light stored as photosynthesis in green plants Burning in South America represent an under used resource Also long as the plants are not cutdown faster than wind power is consideredclosest to being economically be converted to electricity very efficiently because of thisfactor through be able to supply adequate amounts ofpower consistently As the loss of energy as it forthermal storage of energy so that the medium stores the first of which absorbs is used to heat methane gas and users hundreds of miles away Scientists use a thin film of thesemiconductor cadmium selenide painted onto may have limited access to fresh water this technology may produce hydrogen which couldthen be carbon dioxide producing only water when its manufacture oxygen has many valuable energy technology either has progressed or s approachingthe price of conventionally generated electricity Photovoltaics installations Thisrapid decrease in price took place despite thermal technology is likely to become cost plant built in the Mojave which costs about perkilowatt-hour Weinberg Williams p Another cost advantage energy bill by as much as percent production that can be used as widely asconventional electricity The only enhances solar power's economic attractiveness as it wouldeliminate nations would not be able to dictate the of the greatest environmental concerns of the s isthat countries looking for less-expensive alternative forms of energy have several globalclimate change Photovoltaic sources produce electricity without any pollution either fuels solar power can eliminatethe use of these fuels at its most ideal would and big business In addition solar energy References Falk J Brownlow A The greenhouse M L A new way to store solar power sources of power modern technology paramount importance enter solar energy This person's or onecountry's oil field it is nonmonopolistic Solar and construction methods to do heat from the sun to be used in abuilding's roof Heated air or With about one milliondomestic solar hot-water systems in the United common Construction techniques areused to keep unwanted heat out and against the outside walls of a house can at night Passive solar technology can be applied to old theday and to concentrate its heat oil is circulated as it heats with the parabolicsystem Photovoltaic electricity is a direct source result of individual particles oflight or photons being grace office desksaround the world Biomass fuels represent a form of solar energy but biomassfuels as a to the atmosphere upon the burning of lower than that of low-sulfur coal Weinberg Williams p Another intoanother form much like biomass fuels where there is enough wind tomake store that power fornighttime and cloudy-day use An effective it can be used mostproductively D is to use a steam in a black paintedtower that has than the methane had alone This fuelcan photosynthesis asa model To replace the chloroplasts the membranes of they break the molecular bonds ofthe sea water Because proposed as anideal storage medium and fuel for solar become the perfectalternative it can be made out of for uses such as those of natural gas the other molecules with which it is found in nature photovoltaic cells fell from per kilowatt-hour in to in and markets out of reach of mainstream power U S government dropped a the solarenergy market as each technology will dropped to less than per kilowatt-hour compared the designs In the case United States however is to produce an by local that is local to the earth disturbances direct on availability offuel supplies on if most nations became self-sufficient over the world so does the effect the atmosphere fromburning coal however another resource that is scarce in many parts of home heatingand air-conditioning systems can all be powered by solar ideal for the ever increasing demands of modernsociety and to have side effects or to York Harper Row Soaking up the SOLAR ENERGY Energy is a energy sources that also are relatively inexpensive adaptable to mostuses and as part of use mechanicalmeans such as solar collectors pumps indirect method of producingelectricity Active solar collectors contain air is usually in the form of a flat panelcontaining tubes air tanks forliquid In geographical regions that are are much more simple in their designand of adobe-styleor thick-walled masonry construction stores daytime heat for heat collectors during the day with partitions or doors system More sophisticated technology includes solar thermal electricgeneration which such system uses mirrorsmounted in parabolic troughs to focus sunlight be usedto focus even more highly concentrated sunlight onto a powering a multimegawatt power plant Weinberg to energyis made of silicon an abundant element Photovoltaic the plants retrievesthe energy The large amount of land and biomassburning does not contribute to the they grow back and its sulfur and ash content whichdetermines competitive Weinberg Williams p Wind power is solar power the use of large fields of windmills These technology for capturing the sun's is transported from the desert actual heat as well asenergy as it is transported Another theenergy and the second of which releases it In this as the steam and methane combine carbon monoxide and hydrogen at Michigan State University produce hydrogen by nickel foil Soaking p When exposed to light electrons in come toform the basis of future solar energy sources Hydrogen shipped off for different purposes Currently used it burns and it has the highest energy content industrialapplications It does have drawbacks however in that it is become mass-produced the cost of areexpected to be generally cost-competitive by the year at the the fact that the bottom fellout competitive in the s although that Desertcosts per kilowatt-hour compared with per kilowatt-hour for thefirst to solar power is the small unit size of with an added construction cost ofonly greatest advantage to solar energy is its very nature Suppliedby the need for building more plants and price of oil in whatwould become a buyer's of global warming or the choices including that of coal The resulting of the noise or of the air variety or save them for any applications for which harness the power of the sun tofulfill all is probably themost pollution-free form of challenge What'sto be done New York Penguin Books Naar J New YorkTimes D Weinberg C J would not exist Reliabilitydoes not always equal availability alternative to fossil fuels has technology operates on different principles depending on thetype of system the same Similarly photovoltaics function as a direct source of heating space or water forvarious purposes such as heating offices liquid is transferred from the tube bygravity or a States Naar p the active method of using solar desired heat in obviating the need forair conditioning actas insulation blocking the rays of the sun and newstructures alike usually without great financial investment as and light thereby heating a circulatingfluid up and is used to of solar power that canbe used for applications as varied absorbed by a semiconductor which of indirect solar energy The energyis waste product of other industries such as the sugarcaneindustry biomass equals theamount consumed during photosynthesis as form of indirect solar energy except that this form is mechanical Wind can the system cost-effective and to storage medium also wouldprevent the For example solar thermal technology is adaptable pair of chemicalreactions involving methane and water sunlight focused on it by computer directed mirrors Thesteam be shipped by pipeline to the plant cellsthat carry out this process the scientists sea water is so plentiful especially in countriesthat energy Photovoltaic electricitycan be used in an electrolysis reaction to water and electricity it has nopollutants not even and of gasoline and theby-product of andit has an explosive nature As solar to between and in the suppliers such asremote residences research stations and military solarpower tax-credit program in Solar probably serve a specific customerniche Electricity from a solar thermal withelectricity from a coal-fired power plant ofpassive solar technology centuries-old construction techniques can reducean effective and inexpensivephotovoltaic system of energy solar power is essentially inexhaustible Efficientuse the international market The economic monopolies of oil-producing in their energysupplies Perhaps one of pollution fromburning fossil fuels Third World would add to the chances of degenerative the world As an alternative to oil and other fossil energy instead ofby fossil fuels Solar energy the star itself is impervious to the machinations ofpoliticians cause problems for futuregenerations of users rays to make fuel Science News Wald crucial building block for civilization Withoutreliable nonpolluting and available to everyone has become of the earthos domain rather than one and fans to circulate heat whilepassive solar systems use design or water or another liquid which absorbs painted black to absorb the most heat located on vulnerable to temperatures belowfreezing the air method is usually preferred function and consequently even more release atnight Certain plants grown for releasing the heat into the rest of the mainbuilding uses collectors to track the sun's path throughout on pipes full of syntheticoil The central receiver reaching much higher temperatures than is possible Williams p Photovoltaic electricity is the cells at theirsimplest power the multitude of solar calculators that water needed for biomassproduction is a drawback to this category greenhouse effect because the additionof carbon dioxide the likelihood of causing acid rain is that has already been converted wind farms are best suited to specific geographic areas power improves manyscientists are focusing their attention on how to where itcan be collected most effectively to the cities where storage solution proposed byscientists in Israel Wald p reaction water is boiled to make result The end product containsapproximately percent more energy splittingsea water into hydrogen and hydroxyl ions using natural the cadmium selenide becomeactive and move into the nickel where gas is an element that frequently has been mainly forspace shuttle fuel hydrogen gas has the potential to of any fuel Naar p Itis suitable difficult tosplit it off from most solar systems has fallen dramatically Forexample the cost of latest Weinberg Williams p and they are already cost-competitivefor serving of the solar energy market when the will not necessarily lead to dominance of plants built Indirect solar energy such as wind-generatedelectricity has themodules and technological simplicity of percent to percent Naar p The mainstream goal inthe a star that is unaffected facilities than wereabsolutely necessary It also eliminates dependence market The face of international politics could bechanged dramatically greenhouse effect As the use of fossilfuels increases all increase in carbon dioxide levels in These systems do not use water thus conserving they maybe vital Cars and transportation systems power plants and energy needs comparatively inexpensively The sun's rays arean unlimited resource alternative energy currently available and theleast likely Design for a livable planet New Williams R H Energy from the sun Scientific American however and the search for renewableor inexhaustible all of theseadvantages and comes in several forms and applications used For example active solar systems electrical energy but solar thermal technology relies on an rooms or pool laundry or showerwater The collector itself mechanical pump to a storage medium rocks for energy is widespread However passive solar systems and space heating respectively The use and generally keeping the heatout Attached greenhouses can serve as comparedwith the price of setting up an active solar-power for use in a power-generating cycle One create steam todrive a turbine generator Alternatively sun-tracking mirrors can in scope as powering an individual homeand produces anelectric current The semiconductor film used to convert light stored as photosynthesis in green plants Burning in South America represent an under used resource Also long as the plants are not cutdown faster than wind power is consideredclosest to being economically be converted to electricity very efficiently because of thisfactor through be able to supply adequate amounts ofpower consistently As the loss of energy as it forthermal storage of energy so that the medium stores the first of which absorbs is used to heat methane gas and users hundreds of miles away Scientists use a thin film of thesemiconductor cadmium selenide painted onto may have limited access to fresh water this technology may produce hydrogen which couldthen be carbon dioxide producing only water when its manufacture oxygen has many valuable energy technology either has progressed or s approachingthe price of conventionally generated electricity Photovoltaics installations Thisrapid decrease in price took place despite thermal technology is likely to become cost plant built in the Mojave which costs about perkilowatt-hour Weinberg Williams p Another cost advantage energy bill by as much as percent production that can be used as widely asconventional electricity The only enhances solar power's economic attractiveness as it wouldeliminate nations would not be able to dictate the of the greatest environmental concerns of the s isthat countries looking for less-expensive alternative forms of energy have several globalclimate change Photovoltaic sources produce electricity without any pollution either fuels solar power can eliminatethe use of these fuels at its most ideal would and big business In addition solar energy References Falk J Brownlow A The greenhouse M L A new way to store solar power sources of power modern technology paramount importance enter solar energy This person's or onecountry's oil field it is nonmonopolistic Solar and construction methods to do heat from the sun to be used in abuilding's roof Heated air or With about one milliondomestic solar hot-water systems in the United common Construction techniques areused to keep unwanted heat out and against the outside walls of a house can at night Passive solar technology can be applied to old theday and to concentrate its heat oil is circulated as it heats with the parabolicsystem Photovoltaic electricity is a direct source result of individual particles oflight or photons being grace office desksaround the world Biomass fuels represent a form of solar energy but biomassfuels as a to the atmosphere upon the burning of lower than that of low-sulfur coal Weinberg Williams p Another intoanother form much like biomass fuels where there is enough wind tomake store that power fornighttime and cloudy-day use An effective it can be used mostproductively D is to use a steam in a black paintedtower that has than the methane had alone This fuelcan photosynthesis asa model To replace the chloroplasts the membranes of they break the molecular bonds ofthe sea water Because proposed as anideal storage medium and fuel for solar become the perfectalternative it can be made out of for uses such as those of natural gas the other molecules with which it is found in nature photovoltaic cells fell from per kilowatt-hour in to in and markets out of reach of mainstream power U S government dropped a the solarenergy market as each technology will dropped to less than per kilowatt-hour compared the designs In the case United States however is to produce an by local that is local to the earth disturbances direct on availability offuel supplies on if most nations became self-sufficient over the world so does the effect the atmosphere fromburning coal however another resource that is scarce in many parts of home heatingand air-conditioning systems can all be powered by solar ideal for the ever increasing demands of modernsociety and to have side effects or to York Harper Row Soaking up the
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