Brief History Of Solar Power

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Brief History Of Solar Power
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Instructions for use

• Do you ever wonder who invented solar power
  system? More like who invented the mechanism to
  utilize solar power.
• Now if we are going to talk about history, we
  should start at the very beginning when solar
  power started being utilized, even without panels
  or really any other such complex mechanisms.
• So lets go back to the past, to the 3rd century
  B.C.! Romans and Greeks had sacred torches that
  were symbols of hope, faith and much more.
• For example you may have heard of the Olympic
  torch, which also has its origins in Greece.

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• Coming back to solar energy, those sacred torches
  used to be of gigantic sizes and were lit by
  sunlight bounced off of mirrors.
• Solar energy was also utilized by focusing
  sunlight through magnifying glass to start a fire
  for cooking.
• With time, some cultures developed sunrooms to
  get particularly focused exposure to sunlight and
  warmth. 

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• Solar Power Cell
• Solar Technology For Solar Power System Melbourne
• Solar Battery Storage in Melbourne

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Solar Power Cell
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• The solar power system uses photovoltaic cells.
  Now how did these cells enter the picture? Edmond
  Becquerel was experimenting on a cell made from
  metal electrodes in 1839
• He noticed extra energy production when the cells
  were exposed to sunlight. Edmond was a French
  physicist. Then in 1873 came Willoughby Smith who
  found selenium to be a viable photoconductor.
• Then came William Grylls Adams and Richard Evans
  Day in 1876, they used selenium and applied
  Becquerels photovoltaic principle and proved
  that it was a viable way to produce electricity.
• In 1883, Charles Fritz, an American inventor made
  the first ever functional selenium solar cell. We
  are still far from solar panels with silicone
  cells!

Year of Development
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Solar Technology For Solar Power System Melbourne
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We all know Albert. Albert Einstein! The emc2
guy! Yes, he had something to do with solar
energy too! He was a scientist after all.
Einstein brought light to solar energys
potential. He wrote a paper about how sunlight
carries energy and the photoelectric effect, in
1905. He played a significant role because he
managed to really bring attention and acceptance
to a remarkable extent. You may not have
imagined but solar power technology is not
limited to earthly applications but also space!
Various parts of the spacecraft are powered by
solar panels! And this first happened in the
1950s and 1960s with the Vanguard 1 satellite in
1958.
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Further NASA launched the Nimbus satellite in
1964 which ran entirely on a 470 watt
photovoltaic solar panel array. Almost
simultaneously the solar power system Melbourne
moved to very basic commercial and residential
areas.  Around the 1970s American President
Jimmy Carter had solar panels installed on the
white house as a statement for promotion of clean
energy production through solar for people. And
now in the present we see more and more
popularity of Solar Power System Melbourne among
all people and entities from government to
commercial and residential.
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Solar Battery Storage in Melbourne
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Solar batteries are one of the essentials for
solar energy utilization to the maximum capacity
possible. Companies use commercial solar
battery storage to store the excess
energy produced that they are yet to need and
use. Solar batteries are an excellent way of
preserving solar energy till the hour of
need. Melburnians who have low energy usage but
have the systems that produce more energy also
use residential solar battery storage to store
the solar energy. In the case of residential
solar battery storage, the stored energy can of
course be used in the hour of need. 
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olar-power-system-melbourne/