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Solar
STRONG
by Beth Miller
If we could capture it all for just 90 minutes, that beautiful shining star in the sky—our sun—would deliver enough power to satisfy this planet’s appetite for electricity for about a full year, scientists say.
In six days, the sun could deliver nearly a century of power—if demand remained constant. And if demand surges, as expected—well, give it another day or two.
If only.
Though it is 93 million miles away from our
home on Earth, the sun produces all the light and heat our planet gets. Its light reaches Earth
in about eight minutes’ time. This 2014 image is courtesy of NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory.
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IEC has an expansive array of equipment for research
and innovation in thin-film photovoltaic deposition, material characterization and device analysis.
UD’s Institute of
Energy Conversion (IEC) focuses its research on solar energy technol- ogies including cadmium telluride, copper indium gallium selenide and silicon—all of which have varying levels of efficiency and production costs.
KATHY F. ATKINSON
KATHY F. ATKINSON