Solar Energy Vocabulary

Georgia G.
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  1. megawatt
    a unit of power equal to one million watts
    SEGS VIII and IX (each 80 megawatts), located in Harper Lake, are, individually and collectively, the largest solar thermal power generating plants in the world.
  2. thermal
    relating to or associated with heat
    The sun

    Source: NASA

    In the 1830s, the British astronomer John Herschel famously used a solar thermal collector box (a device that absorbs sunlight to collect heat) to cook food during an expedition to Africa.
  3. solar
    relating to the sun or utilizing the energies of the sun
    Solar Basics
    Energy from the Sun

    The sun has produced energy for billions of years.
Created on Fri Mar 30 13:03:12 EDT 2012 (updated Fri Mar 30 13:10:23 EDT 2012)

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