Jenny Nelson, “Harnessing the Sun” (Open Agenda, 2021)
New Books in Science, Technology, and Society
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The Basics of Solar Energy
There are three basic types of solar ergy. Depending upon which system you have, you have a different configuration of states. You might call that the van stractur. And in every case, i think we're talking about the interaction of solar photons with condensed matter,. usually with a solid. So at the heart of it all tis there's, you'll del with the photon electron interaction. Swe swe roots of three types of three forms in which you could extract the energy that you've converted.
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