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  1. Solar Electricity Handbook, 2010 Edition: A Simple Practical Guide to Solar Energy - Designing and Installing Photovoltaic Solar Electric Systems by Michael Boxwell, 2010-03-25
  2. THE Passive Solar Energy Book (Expanded Professional Edition) by Edward Mazria, 1980
  3. Solar Energy Projects for the Evil Genius by Gavin Harper, 2007-06-22
  4. Solar Power Your Home For Dummies (For Dummies (Home & Garden)) by Rik DeGunther, 2010-01-19
  5. Solar Electricity Basics: A Green Energy Guide by Dan Chiras, 2010-07-01
  6. The Homeowner's Guide to Renewable Energy: Achieving Energy Independence through Solar, Wind, Biomass and Hydropower (Mother Earth News Wiser Living) by Dan Chiras, 2006-02-01
  7. Solar Energy Pocket Reference (Energy Pocket Reference Series) by Christopher L. Martin, D. Yogi Goswami, 2005-11
  8. Passive Solar Energy: The Homeowner's Guide to Natural Heating and Cooling by Bruce Anderson, Malcolm Wells, 1996-07
  9. Environmental Design of Urban Buildings: An Integrated Approach (BEST (Buildings, Energy and Solar Technology))
  10. Got Sun? Go Solar: Get Free Renewable Energy to Power Your Grid-Tied Home by Rex A. Ewing; Doug Pratt, 2005-06-15
  11. Power from the Sun: A Practical Guide to Solar Electricity by Dan Chiras, 2009-09-01
  12. Solar Collectors, Energy Storage, and Materials (Solar Heat Technologies)
  13. Solar Power (Energy for Today) by Tea Benduhn, 2008-07
  14. Harnessing Power from the Sun (Energy Revolution) by Niki Walker, 2007-01-25

1. Solar Energy - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
solar energy is energy directly from the Sun. This energy drives the climate and weather and supports virtually all life on Earth.
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Jump to: navigation search The Solar Two 10 MW solar power facility, showing the power tower (left) surrounded by the sun-tracking mirrors. Available solar energy (left) greatly exceeds both potential wind power (center) and global energy consumption (right). Renewable energy Biofuels
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Solar energy is energy directly from the Sun . This energy drives the climate and weather and supports virtually all life on Earth. Heat and light from the sun, along with solar-based resources such as wind and wave power, hydroelectricity and biomass, account for most of the available flow of renewable energy. Solar energy technologies harness the sun's energy for practical ends. These technologies date from the time of the early Greeks, Native Americans and Chinese , who warmed their buildings by orienting them toward the sun. Modern solar technologies provide heating, lighting, electricity and even flight. Solar power is used synonymously with solar energy or more specifically to refer to the conversion of sunlight into electricity . This can be done either through the photovoltaic effect or by heating a transfer fluid to produce steam to run a generator.

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3. Renewable Energy - Solar Energy, Radiant/light Energy, Heat/thermal Energy
solar energy can be converted into other forms of energy, such as heat and electricity. In the 1830s, the British astronomer John Herschel used a solar
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ENERGY FROM THE SUN
Solar energy can be converted into other forms of energy, such as heat and electricity. In the 1830s, the British astronomer John Herschel used a solar thermal collector box (a device that absorbs sunlight to collect heat) to cook food during an expedition to Africa. Today, people use the sun's energy for lots of things. Solar energy can be converted to thermal (or heat) energy and used to: Solar energy can be converted to electricity in two ways:
  • Photovoltaic Solar Power Plants - indirectly generate electricity when the heat from solar thermal collectors is used to heat a fluid which produces steam that is used to power generator. Out of the 15 known solar electric generating units operating in the United States at the end of 2006, 10 of these are in California, and 5 in Arizona. No statistics are being collected on solar plants that produce less than 1 megawatt of electricity, so there may be smaller solar plants in a number of other states.
The major disadvantages of solar energy are:
  • The amount of sunlight that arrives at the earth's surface is not constant. It depends on location, time of day, time of year, and weather conditions.

4. SEI: Welcome To Solar Energy International
solar energy International offers handson workshops in solar, wind and water power and natural building technologies in 11 locations.
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5. ScienceDaily: Solar Energy News
solar energy Information. Read the latest news and techniques for efficient solar photovoltaic power, new solar energy systems and more.
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6. The Energy Story - Chapter 15: Solar Energy
The problem with solar energy is that it works only when the sun is shining. So, on cloudy days and at night, the power plants can t create energy.
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Chapter 15: Solar Energy
We have always used the energy of the sun as far back as humans have existed on this planet. As far back as 5,000 years ago, people "worshipped" the sun. Ra, the sun-god, who was considered the first king of Egypt. In Mesopotamia, the sun-god Shamash was a major deity and was equated with justice. In Greece there were two sun deities, Apollo and Helios. The influence of the sun also appears in other religions - Zoroastrianism, Mithraism, Roman religion, Hinduism, Buddhism, the Druids of England, the Aztecs of Mexico, the Incas of Peru, and many Native American tribes. We know today, that the sun is simply our nearest star. Without it, life would not exist on our planet. We use the sun's energy every day in many different ways. When we hang laundry outside to dry in the sun, we are using the sun's heat to do work drying our clothes. Plants use the sun's light to make food. Animals eat plants for food. And as we learned in Chapter 5, decaying plants hundreds of millions of years ago produced the coal, oil and natural gas that we use today. So, fossil fuels is actually sunlight stored millions and millions of years ago. Indirectly, the sun or other stars are responsible for ALL our energy. Even nuclear energy comes from a star because the uranium atoms used in nuclear energy were created in the fury of a nova - a star exploding.

7. American Solar Energy Society
Web site has information on membership and publications, as well as policy statements on topics related to renewable energy and electric utility
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8. SOLAR ENERGY
After the 1973 oil embargo, there was a resurgence of interest in solar energy. Faced with a possibility of scarce oil resources, the United States
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SOLAR ENERGY
Introduction
After the 1973 oil embargo, there was a resurgence of interest in solar energy. Faced with a possibility of scarce oil resources, the United States government allocated $400 million per year, from a mere $1 million per year, for solar energy research. The expenditure is small compared to the expenditure on nuclear research. Currently, there is a need for allocating increased resources in solar research. Compared to the old forms of depletable energy (coal, oil, nuclear), solar energy offers a clean renewable form of energy. This presentation will provide an overview of the past, present and future of solar energy.
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9. EERE: Solar Energy Technologies Program Home Page
Welcome to the Web site for the U.S. Department of Energy s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy solar energy Technologies program.
http://www.eere.energy.gov/solar/
Welcome to the Web site for the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Solar Energy Technologies program. We focus on developing solar energy technologies to power our world. We are motivated by a belief that science and technology, guided by purpose and vision, can deliver new energy resources that are clean, reliable, and secure. Solar energy technologies have great potential to benefit our nation. They can diversify our energy supply, reduce our dependence on imported fuels, improve the quality of the air we breathe, offset greenhouse gas emissions, and stimulate our economy by creating jobs in the manufacturing and installation of solar energy systems.
CSP systems use reflective materials that concentrate the sun's heat energy to drive a generator that produces electricity.
PV systems use semiconductor materials that convert sunlight directly to electricity.
Solar collectors absorb the sun's energy to provide low-temperature heat used directly for hot water or space heating for residential or commercial buildings.
Parabolic collectors focus sunlight into a fiber optic system to illuminate building interiors with sunlight.

10. SEIA - Solar Energy Industries Association
The solar energy Industries Association (SEIA) is the national trade association of solar energy manufacturers, dealers, distributors, contractors,
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11. Solar Energy - Elsevier
solar energy, the official journal of the International solar energy Society®, is devoted exclusively to the science and technology of solar energy
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Solar Energy welcomes manuscripts presenting information not previously published in journals on any aspect of solar energy research, development, application, measurement or policy. The term "solar energy" in this context includes the indirect uses such as wind energy and biomass. Because of the international character of Solar Energy , articles that deal solely with the solar radiation or wind data base of a specific country are not normally considered suitable for Solar Energy . Submitted manuscripts may take the form of reports of original studies or reviews of significant prior work in a given area. All manuscripts are subject to reviews to assure accuracy, clarity, and long-term value.

12. Solar Energy Network
Led by the Philippines’ Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR), the $48 million contract – the largest solar energy project ever – is financed by the Spanish
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Over 400,000 residents of the Philippines will benefit from a deal signed today between BP and the Spanish and Philippine governments to bring solar power to 150 isolated villages in the Philippines. Led by the Philippines’ Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR), the $48 million contract – the largest solar energy project ever – is financed by the Spanish government and will be implemented in two phases, the first scheduled to begin in September.
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13. Florida Solar Energy Center
Information on the renewable energy and energy efficiency research, education, training, and certification activities of the Florida solar energy Center
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FSEC's director, Jim Fenton, was appointed to the Florida Governor's Action Team, which is charged with developing Florida's Energy and Climate Change Action Plan. Solar Information Help Desk
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14. Solar Energy Companies
Directory of solar energy companies across the US. solar energy is a clean and reliable source of power.
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15. NREL: Learning - Solar Energy Basics
There are a variety of technologies that have been developed to take advantage of solar energy. These include concentrating solar power systems,
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The sun's heat and light provide an abundant source of energy that can be harnessed in many ways. There are a variety of technologies that have been developed to take advantage of solar energy. These include concentrating solar power systems, passive solar heating and daylighting, photovoltaic systems, solar hot water, and solar process heat and space heating and cooling. Solar power can be used in both large-scale applications and in smaller systems for the home. Businesses and industry can diversify their energy sources, improve efficiency, and save money by choosing solar technologies for heating and cooling, industrial processes, electricity, and water heating. Homeowners can also use solar technologies for heating and cooling and water heating, and may even be able to produce enough electricity to operate "off-grid" or to sell the extra electricity to the utilities, depending on local programs. The use of passive solar heating and daylighting design strategies can help both homes and commercial buildings operate more efficiently and make them more pleasant and comfortable places in which to live and work.
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16. How Solar Energy Works
solar energy—power from the sun—is free and inexhaustible. This vast, clean energy resource represents a viable alternative to the fossil fuels that
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6. The Future of Solar Energy
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The Solar Resource By the time it reaches Earth's surface, the energy in sunlight has fallen to about 1,000 watts per square meter at noon on a cloudless day. Averaged over the entire surface of the planet, 24 hours per day for a year, each square meter collects the approximate energy equivalent of almost a barrel of oil each year, or 4.2 kilowatt-hours of energy every day. Click on the graphic above to view a full-size
map of solar resource potential in the United
States. Source: NREL. This figure varies by location and weather patterns. Deserts, with very dry air and little cloud cover, receive the most sun more than six kilowatt-hours per day per square meter. Northern climes, such as that of

17. Solar Energy - Science - The New York Times
Find articles and multimedia about solar energy from The New York Times.
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    The Energy Challenge Solar Power Wins Enthusiasts but Not Money By ANDREW C. REVKIN and MATTHEW L. WALD Experts say that moving solar energy from niche to mainstream is unlikely without big breakthroughs. July 16, 2007 Business Series The Cost of Saving Energy By J. ALEX TARQUINIO New York City’s extensive mass-transit system means lower auto emissions, but the city’s residential buildings are less energy-efficient than those in many other places. July 15, 2007 Real Estate News Forget Computers. Here Comes the Sun. By JOHN MARKOFF The fledgling solar-cell industry uses just about as many silicon wafers as the chip industry does, but the resemblance ends there. April 14, 2006

18. Department Of Energy - Solar
The Department of Energy’s solar energy Technology Program, managed by the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy accelerates the development of
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19. Solar Power
If you need more information about solar energy, visit these Web sites. Solar Power Energy from the Sun by the U.S. Department of Energy
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Have you ever used a magnifying glass to make something melt or burn? You were using solar power! We can use solar power in two different ways: as a heat source, and as an energy source. People have used the sun as a heat source for thousands of years. Families in ancient Greece built their homes to get the most sunlight during the cold winter months. In the 1830s, explorer John Herschel used a solar collector to cook food during an adventure in Africa. You can even try this at home! Make your own solar oven View a photo of a home with solar panels We can also use solar energy to make electricity. The process is called photovoltaics In 1954, scientists at Bell Telephone discovered that silicon (an element found in sand) created an electric charge when it was exposed to lots of sunlight. Just a few years later, silicon chips were used to help power space satellites. Today, more than 10,000 American families get all of their electricity from solar power. And silicon from just one ton of sand, used in photovoltaic cells, could produce as much electricity as burning 500,000 tons of coal. View a photo of a solar power plant Rule
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20. Solar Energy Technologies Program: Concentrating Solar Power
The US Department of Energy s site provides information about electric power options using concentrated sunlight.
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This solar thermal power plant located in the Mojave Desert in Kramer Junction, California, is one of nine such plants built in the 1980s. During operation, oil in the receiver tubes collects the concentrated solar energy as heat and is pumped to a power block (in background) for generating electricity. This solar dish-engine system is an electric generator that "burns" sunlight instead of gas or coal to produce electricity. The dish, a concentrator, is the primary solar component of the system, collecting the energy coming directly from the sun and concentrating it on a small area. A thermal receiver absorbs the concentrated beam of solar energy, converts it to heat, and transfers the heat to the engine/generator. (Credit: Sandia National Laboratories) The program's goal is to ensure that solar thermal technologies such as concentrating solar power make an important contribution to the world's growing need for energy. Visit these sites for more information: Printable Version
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