Surprising Facts About Solar Power

getsolar.com 24 Oct '12, 5pm

Surprising Facts About Solar Power

Surprising Facts About Solar Power Wednesday, October 24th 2012 9:04 AM By GetSolar Staff. Solar equipment may seem simple enough - flat panels that turn sunlight into electricity - but there is a lot more behind this renewable energy source that you may have never realized. History of Solar Power: The first photovoltaic cells were designed by Bell Laboratories in 1954, and one of the first adopters of solar energy was the U.S. space program, the Energy Department reported. In the 1960s, NASA used photovoltaic modules to power spacecrafts, including the Vanguard 1 artificial satellite that is still orbiting the Earth. The True Power of the Sun: According to the Energy Department, sunlight is by far the most abundant energy source on the planet. An estimated 173,000 terawatts of solar energy hits the Earth's surface at any given moment. Should all available sunlight be conv...

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