{draw:a} Student no: 12311461. *Course: Entrepreneurship* (LB5207). Topic: Solar cars- Golden rays ready to replace Black Gold. With the fuel crisis seen in the last decade and the current gasoline prices at an all time high there was need for a renewable source of energy that was more affordable and eco-friendly. Solar energy was the perfect answer. Almost all energy on Earth comes from the sun. The Solar technology aims at converting the Sun’s light energy into a direct current which can
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In 1975‚ with the fall of Saigon‚ the Vietnamese found themselves finally at the end of the bloody war that had engulfed their country for 20-some years. By the end of this 20 yearlong war hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese‚ Cambodian‚ and Laotian civilians lay dead and millions of others found themselves fleeing their war-torn homes for safe-haven in nearby China‚ Southeast Asia‚ North American‚ and Europe. To deal with in large influx of refugees many countries‚ including the United States‚ enacted
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Solar cooker From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation‚ search In Ghana‚ Zouzugu villagers like this woman prevent dracunculiasis and other waterborne diseases by pasteurizing water in a CooKit solar cooker. A solar oven or solar cooker is a device which uses sunlight as its energy source. Because they use no fuel and they cost nothing to run‚ humanitarian organizations are promoting their use worldwide to help slow deforestation and desertification‚ caused by using wood
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for a greener planet and renewable energy sources‚ solar energy is one of the most widely used and abundant in nature. The sun is readily available resource‚ and the energy from the sun can be captured and can be used for many applications. One of the applications is the use of this energy from the Sun for our energy needs. The solar energy from the Sun can be converted into Electrical energy. The device that does this work of converting Solar energy to Electrical energy is the PV cell. This PV
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with his friends invented an innovative bird feeder that worked on solar power. The feeder used a small solar panel in its roof to build an electric charge. The Solar feeder’s purpose is to use the mild electric shock it generates to repel the squirrels‚ preventing them from stealing the bird seed or damaging the feeder itself. In a typical product-driven approach‚ Bo and his friends started SDI‚ Inc. to produce and promote the solar feeder without having done any marketing plan. After several years
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Structural insulated panels SIPs The principal of sustainable building based on efficiency. The concepts of efficiency are paramount to the understanding the practice of building and the application of choosing framing types based on the most desirable outcomes. Regardless of the external environment the practice of building revolves around the acceptability of the interior environment of the building to the occupants and objects therein contained. The pursuit of constructing energy efficient buildings
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1. INTRODUCTION A solar cell is a device that converts the energy of sunlight 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 photovoltaic cell is used when the light source is unspecified.”Photovoltaics” the field of technology and research related to the application of solar cells in producing electricity for practical use.
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alternative energy sources: Solar‚ wind and water. This report will be about solar energy. Its purpose is giving some information about solar energy to mechanical engineering students and engineers and calling attention on solar energy. The tree parts of this report discuss the history and operation of solar energy systems‚ the usage areas and advantages and disadvantages of using solar energy. The section on history and operation will discuss about history and operatio of solar system. The section
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Jaron Douglass 1st Hour Word Count: 433 Panel Discussion Reflection Essay The panel discussion is a very helpful activity that gave me a lot of feedback and ideas about what to do with my paper and how to make it clearer. Starting out‚ I explained exactly what I was writing about and why. After I did that‚ I showed them examples of my research and the different views I have been looking at. My facilitator‚ Mrs. Davis‚ told me a lot of useful ways to work what I wanted to do and say into my paper
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Solar power From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia This article is about generation of electricity using solar energy. For other uses of solar energy‚ see Solar energy. The PS10 concentrates sunlight received from a field of heliostats onto a central tower. Solar power is the conversion of sunlight into electricity‚ either directly using photovoltaics (PV)‚ or indirectly using concentrated solar power (CSP). Concentrated solar power systems use lenses or mirrors and tracking systems to focus
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