IB Term Project Moroccan Solar Initiative By Gerrit Geising‚ Paxton Hall‚ Youssef Hamdi‚ Maximilian Köhler & Alexandre Malouf 12 Table of Contents I. SES Overview.............................................................................................................................................. 2 Regulators (Government) ............................................................................................................................. 5 II. European UF Sector ........
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the sun. Rotates in the opposite direction than most other planets. Earth – Third planet from the sun. Known as the only planet to harbor life. Mars – Fourth planet from the sun and the second smallest in the solar system. Jupiter – The fifth planet from the sun and the largest in the solar system. Saturn – Sixth planet from the sun. Only planet with a ring around it. Uranus – Seventh planet from the sun. Third largest planetary radius. Neptune – Eighth planet from the sun and also known as the
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The Cultural and Economic effect of Solar Panel Technology on our Society. Solar energy and its use isn’t new to the world. It has been used by various societies beginning from 7thCentury B.C‚ when the sun’s heat was concentrated by glass and mirrors to light fires. Today‚ we have everything from solar-powered buildings to solar-powered vehicles. By and large solar technology has some environmental‚ economic‚ psychological and ethical implications for our
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Photosynthesis vs. Semiconductor based solar cell. Photosynthesis vs. Semiconductor based solar cell. Wais Ghowsi Instructor: Meri Stanec SCI 115 April 24th‚ 2011 What is Photosynthesis? Photosynthesis simply means the conversion of light energy into chemical energy by living organisms. In photosynthesis‚ the raw materials are water and carbon dioxide. Energy is taken from sunlight and the end products give out glucose and oxygen. It is the most important‚ naturally occurring process
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comes from‚ only that it’s available and plentiful. Electricity generated by burning fossil fuels such as coal‚ oil and natural gas‚ emits carbon dioxide‚ nitrogen oxides and sulfur oxides -- gases scientists believe contribute to climate change. Solar thermal (heat) energy is a carbon-free‚ renewable alternative to the power we generate with fossil fuels like coal and gas. This isn’t a thing of the future‚ either. Between 1984 and 1991‚ the United States built nine such plants in California’s Mojave
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the case of realistic profiles it is the distance at which the Concentration of the diffusing atoms drops to a characteristic lower value. For example，about 0.3 for a Gaussian concentration profile. A2.5 For commercially produced screen-printed solar cells‚ the surface doping concentration is about 1×10!" ~1×10!" ������������������������������/������������! . It is nearly the solid solubility of phosphorus in silicon substrate. On the other
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2.5 Aspects of Solar Cell Efficiency Most of the energy that reaches a cell in the form of sunlight is lost before it is converted to electricity. The usual efficiency of these systems ranges between 10% to 15%‚ though sometimes this efficiency increases to 30% and more. Certain physical properties affect the cell efficiency which we will briefly state. 1- Reflection: Studies show that untreated silicon reflects 36% or more of sunlight that strikes it. Chemically coating and texturing the surface
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Solar Tracker Bill Lane* Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Cleveland State University Cleveland‚ Ohio 44115 EEC 517 April 30‚ 2008 * welane3@hotmail.com or wlane@republicengineered.com Abstract Solar energy is rapidly gaining notoriety as an important means of expanding renewable energy resources. As such‚ it is vital that those in engineering fields understand the technologies associated with this area. My project will include the design and construction of a microcontroller-based
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limited‚ nuclear energy is dangerous‚ and then there is solar energy: clean‚ abundant and safe. It is already used around the Earth to give energy to those huge satellites into orbit but also in the surface of the Earth to provide electricity to many houses or other structures in need of energy. Indeed solar energy may be the most important renewable source of energy for the moment. However installations allowing using the solar energy such as solar panels are still very expensive and space consuming
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Approximately 557 Earth years is equal to 1 Eris year. Eris has a diameter between 2‚400 and 3‚000 km. Eris plays a big part in our Solar System and is important to us because it is the largest object and the largest dwarf planet to be found orbiting the sun since 1846‚ when Neptune and its moon Triton was discovered. In conclusion‚ Eris is the 10th planet in our solar system and is rocky unlike many planets before it. References: • Dwarf Planets; UB313 or Eris http://sse.jpl.nasa.gov/planets/profile
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