Solar energy is radiant light and heat coming from the sun that is controlled in order to produce power using a range of ever evolving technologies such as solar heating, photovoltaics, solar thermal energy,solar architecture,molten salt power plants .
It is essential source of renewable energy and its technologies are characterized as either passive solar or active solar depending on how they capture and distribute solar energy or convert into solar power.
Active solar techniques includes the use of phovoltaic systems, concentrated solar power and solar water heating to control the energy.Passive solar techniques include orienting a building to the sun,selecting materials with favorable thermal mass or light that naturally circulate air.
How does solar energy directly impact our planet earth?
When solar energy is released from the sun it hits our planet earth, but because we are protected by the ozone layer only certain levels of sunlight make it’s way to the earths surface.
Most of the sunlight is absorbed by our clouds, oceans, land masses while the rest are bounced back into outer space. How this is made useful to living systems is by allowing us to see, provide us with Vitamin D for bone development, and helps plants and some bacterial species grow as a source of energy.
How can we use solar energy to our benefits?
Scientists wanted to understand ‘if the sun provides us with so much energy, what if we could utilize more of it?’. Today solar technology is the leading source for renewable energy and helping replace unreliable and expensive methods of energy production that are supposedly warming out planet due to the release of pollution’s.
Not only is solar technology providing us with a new way of generating energy, but is helping our economy, reducing our worlds carbon footprint, helping property owners pay less and a more safe form of energy.
Solar Energy – a clean source
Since no greenhouse gas emissions are related into the atmosphere when you use solar panels to create electricity and the sun provides more energy than we will ever need electricity from solar power plays a very important energy source and provides clean energy production
Secondly No fuel to burn after solar panels have been installed,operational costs are quite costs are quite low compared to other forms of power generation and this means it create large amount of electricity without the uncertainty and expense of securing a fuel supply