what is solar energy?

Question

I am in 10th grade and i am doing a project to model Solar Energy, but i am clueless what it is and as to what to do. can someone help me out in simple words lol. thank u!:)

Answer 1

Solar energy is energy from the sun it can be used to heats chemical rods inside solar conductors the heat from the rods can make energy which can be used to heat our homes and give electrical power to our homes. hope that helped a litttle.

Answer 2

Well, very simple solar energy is: you put, say, a tank of water on your roof, painted black to absorb more solar heat, and let the sun warm it up. That's what my host family had in Mexico--they had a regular water heater for when it was too cold to use the rooftop model, but in the summer, when it was plenty hot, they used that for showers and stuff.

More complex solar energy uses panels (some kind of electricity-generating coating on them--I don't know how they work) and the electricity they generate goes into batteries or is used later. You can use them for, say, a lightbulb if you have a little panel, or if you have a bunch and plenty of sunshine, you can run your whole house on it. The batteries help if you don't have constant sunshine--you can store electricity for later (I guess they're like car batteries. Maybe they are car batteries.)

Oh, if you mean what comes out of the sun--it's a fusion reaction (hydrogen is formed into helium) and it releases a bunch of heat and light. The "rays" are beams of radiation. Not like "nuclear radiation" from fission, which is what powers your average nuclear power plant or missile. Fusion on earth is pretty limited at this point--the sun is huge and very hot and it's easy to do fusion there, but we're doing good if we can get, like, two atoms to fuse. Pretty lame.

Which is why the sun is handy.

Answer 3

Conventional energy sources that are derived from fossil fuels (coal, oil , natural gas) will eventually get depleted, since their consumption is increasing at a very fast rate . Alternative energy sources are renewable energy sources like bio fuels, solar energy, wind power, hydroelectric power. Most governments offer several incentives to producers and users of alternative energy sources. For more details visit http://altenergy.in/ Visit this site and select a suitable subject for your project.

Answer 4

Check out the wiki page, and look at this also.
http://www.ecology.com/archived-links/nuclear-fusion/index.html

This explains the basics of how solar energy is produced - two hydrogen atoms reacting to form a helium atom, with the excess energy converted to the forms of light and heat, which travels outward from the sun and is what we refer to as "solar energy"

Answer 5

"Solar power is the technology of obtaining usable energy from the light of the Sun. Solar energy has been used in many traditional technologies for centuries and has come into widespread use where other power supplies are absent, such as in remote locations and in space."

Answer 6

Solar energy is energy that is from the sun

Answer 7

yay! finally an easy question! i know the exact definition! solar energy is energy we get from the sun. they call it "solar" energy because "sol" means sun. so basically it mean sun energy which is energy we get from the sun. without the sun, we would not have solar energy! am still learning that in school! =) good luck on your project!

Answer 8

solar energy is the energy from the suns rays.i think it should deal with the sun

Answer 9

energy form the sun

Answer 10

energy from the sun