Residential Solar Power News
An instrument called a photovoltaic solar cell is used to convert sunlight into electrical power. It works according to the phenomenon known as the “photoelectric effect”. When sufficiently energetic photons of light interact with metal, electrons disengage from it and take flight, entering metal conducting wires as an electrical current.
Today’s uber-amazing solar article comes from Jess Spate of Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage. If you’ve never heard of Dancing Rabbit, it’s an off-grid community of about 50 people in Northeast Missouri. The people are committed to living as sustainably as possible, and have even engineered a renewably-powered infrastructure to run computers, internet, phones and more. Dancing [...]
BP says renewable energy technologies like solar are poised to leap ahead of conventional fossil fuels by 2030.