What is Solar Power?

Essentially, the suns rays are unfettered and uncontrolled beams of ultraviolet radiation and the first successful experiments in the 1890s and 1900s showed that the sun’s energy could be harnessed to heat water, turning it into steam to power mechanical devices sush a steam engine water pump. From those early experiments, what is solar power has been harnessed through the use of photovoltaic cells to convert the sun’s energy into electric power.

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