Unit 3: Solar Power
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- Solar Power
- Advantages
- Photothermal panels are well developed
- Able to store hot water
- No pollution
- Usable in remote areas
- Renewable
- Little maintenance required
- Free after installation
- No noise pollution
- Disadvantages
- Intermittent - unavailable at night
- Low energy density
- Unpredictable amount of light harnessed at ground
- Photovoltaic cells have a low efficiency
- Unreliable
- Large areas of land required
- Initially expensive
- Location
- Reliable and intense sunlight
- Large areas needed
- House roofs and fields
- Passive Solar Heating
- Building design to absorb sunlight for heating
- No technology needed
- Active Solar Heating
- Photothermal
- Warms water for use
- Uses glass to make the greenhouse effect
- Photovoltaic
- Sunlight displaces electrons that drive appliances
- Amorphous cells used more as they are cheaper
- Photothermal
- Advantages
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