How to Build a Simple Solar Box Cooker Solar Oven
on Sep 29, 2009 in Solar Cooking Environment renewable energy Solar Energy solar oven solar thermal Sun Powered sustainable technologies Solar ovens can cook food or pasteurize water using only the power of the sun.  How does a solar oven work?  The simple answer is that it is designed to absorb more heat than it releases. The “Minimum” Solar Box Cooker is a simple cardb...

Why Solar Cookers Are Important for the Environment, Human Health and Safety
on Sep 25, 2009 in Solar Cooking Environment Health renewable energy Solar Energy solar oven solar thermal Sun Powered sustainable technologies In our modern day environment, flipping a switch to abundant energy supplies is usually an unconscious act with little awareness of the critical issues that lie behind it.  But many of the world’s inhabitants do not have a switch to flip. About ha...

Benefits of Solar Oven Cooking
on Sep 23, 2009 in Solar Cooking renewable energy Solar Energy solar oven solar thermal Sun Powered sustainable technologies The Benefits of Solar Oven Cooking Solar cooking is the simplest, safest, most convenient way to cook food without consuming fuels or heating up the kitchen. Many people choose to solar cook for these reasons.  But for hundreds of millions of people...

Solar Cooking in a Cardboard Box
on Sep 21, 2009 in Solar Cooking renewable energy Solar Energy solar oven sustainable technologies Inventor turns cardboard boxes into eco-friendly solar powered oven When Jon Bohmer sat down with his two daughters to create a simple project they could work on together, he didn’t realize they’d hit upon a solution to one of the world&#...

Solar Energy Associations
on Sep 19, 2009 in Solar Energy energy efficiency renewable energy Solar Industry Solar Power solar technologies sustainable technologies Solar Energy Associations and Societies   The International Solar Energy Society http://www.ises.org/ The Society has been active in advancing the cause of renewable energy since 1954 and is present in more than 50 countries; the Society supports it...

Types of Solar Cells
on Sep 18, 2009 in Solar Energy photovoltaic conversion producing electricity solar cell Solar Power A solar cell or photovoltaic cell is a device that converts light directly into electricity by the photovoltaic effect. Sometimes the term solar cell is reserved for devices intended specifically to capture energy from sunlight, while the term photov...

What is a Solar Cell?
on Sep 16, 2009 in Solar Energy photovoltaic cells photovoltaic conversion producing electricity solar cell Solar Power A solar cell is a device that converts photons from the sun into electricity. In general a solar cell that includes both solar and non-solar sources of light (such as photons from incandescent bulbs) is termed a photovoltaic cell. Fundamentally, the...

History Of Solar Cells
on Sep 15, 2009 in Solar Energy photovoltaic cells photovoltaic conversion producing electricity solar cell Solar Power A solar cell is any device that directly converts the energy in light into electrical energy through the process of photovoltaics. The term “photovoltaic” comes from the Greek Word meaning “light”, and the name of the Italian...

How do Photovoltaic Cells Generate Electricity?
on Sep 14, 2009 in Solar Power photovoltaic cells photovoltaic conversion photovoltaic panels producing electricity PV panels renewable energy solar panels  Solar Panels Come in all Shapes and Sizes Photovoltaics or PV for short can be thought of as a direct current (DC) generator powered by the sun.  When light photons of sufficient energy strike a solar cell, they knock electrons free in the sili...

Will Solar Panels Work at My Location?
on Sep 12, 2009 in Solar Energy photovoltaic panels producing electricity PV panels solar panels Solar Power Solar energy is universal and will work virtually anywhere, however some locations are better than others. Irradiance is a measure of the sun’s power available at the surface of the earth and it averages about 1000 watts per square meter.  Wi...