Solar Power: The Unlimited Source
Solar Power Plant (1/5)
View of a solar thermal power plant at Sanlucar La Mayor, Spain. The power plant uses mirrors to concentrate the sun's rays onto the top of a 100-meter tower where they heat a fluid that drives a turbine.
This is the first in a series of solar plants in the area that will produce 300 Megawatts of power by 2013 - enough to power around 180,000 homes. (Photo: Reuters)
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Solar Power Plant (1/5)
View of a solar thermal power plant at Sanlucar La Mayor, Spain. The power plant uses mirrors to concentrate the sun's rays onto the top of a 100-meter tower where they heat a fluid that drives a turbine.
This is the first in a series of solar plants in the area that will produce 300 Megawatts of power by 2013 - enough to power around 180,000 homes. (Photo: Reuters)
Solar Power: The Unlimited Source
Photovoltaic Panels (2/5)
Indonesian workers install solar cell panels on the outskirts of Banda Aceh to replace an electric system destroyed by the December 2004 Tsunami. Solar energy is especially useful for remote, off-grid places.
Direct solar energy, however, only supplies less than one percent of global energy due to relatively high costs.(Photo: Reuters)
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Photovoltaic Panels (2/5)
Indonesian workers install solar cell panels on the outskirts of Banda Aceh to replace an electric system destroyed by the December 2004 Tsunami. Solar energy is especially useful for remote, off-grid places.
Direct solar energy, however, only supplies less than one percent of global energy due to relatively high costs.(Photo: Reuters)
Solar Power: The Unlimited Source
Small Solar (3/5)
A small solar panel on the roof of Lamayuru Monastery in India's Buddhist-dominated Laddakh region in May 2006. Many of the remote monasteries in the mountainous region utilize solar panels. At an elevation of 3,500 meters, the monasteries are difficult to connect to the grid, and have the advantage of being closer to the sun than many other inhabited places. (Photo: Reuters)
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Small Solar (3/5)
A small solar panel on the roof of Lamayuru Monastery in India's Buddhist-dominated Laddakh region in May 2006. Many of the remote monasteries in the mountainous region utilize solar panels. At an elevation of 3,500 meters, the monasteries are difficult to connect to the grid, and have the advantage of being closer to the sun than many other inhabited places. (Photo: Reuters)
Solar Power: The Unlimited Source
Solar Heating (4/5)
Workers assemble water tanks used for solar water heaters at a factory in Jinan, China. China is rapidly adding solar power to its energy mix and already consumes half of all solar-heated water in the world.
In Rizhao, a city of around 3 million people, 99 percent of houesholds in the central districts use solar water heaters. (Photo: Reuters)
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Solar Heating (4/5)
Workers assemble water tanks used for solar water heaters at a factory in Jinan, China. China is rapidly adding solar power to its energy mix and already consumes half of all solar-heated water in the world.
In Rizhao, a city of around 3 million people, 99 percent of houesholds in the central districts use solar water heaters. (Photo: Reuters)
Solar Power: The Unlimited Source
Solar Innovation (5/5)
The solar house built by students from the Technical University of Darmstadt won the 2007 Solar Decathlon in Washington DC. College teams from around the world had to design, build, and operate a livable, energy-efficient, and completely solar-powered house.
Movable shutters equipped with photovoltaic panels and a well-insulated roof with more PV panels help conserve and produce energy. (Photo: Reuters)
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Solar Innovation (5/5)
The solar house built by students from the Technical University of Darmstadt won the 2007 Solar Decathlon in Washington DC. College teams from around the world had to design, build, and operate a livable, energy-efficient, and completely solar-powered house.
Movable shutters equipped with photovoltaic panels and a well-insulated roof with more PV panels help conserve and produce energy. (Photo: Reuters)
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