. Today I found out that… 1) It comes from the sun. Obvious perhaps, but typically forgotten is that the sun is the original source for most of the usable energy on earth. 2) Use it or lose it. What solar energy is not captured or put to use, reflects or is radiated back out into space.

I have to make a tv commercial is school encouraging people to use solar power. so I need facts the suns energy can light up the entire planet 100 times over (Not true but I want that kind of thing) or how its not damaging the enviroment or something. Basically… Every hour the sun shines, a small handful of quarters falls on your roof. That's the equivalent heat and/or electricity you could harvest. It's raining quarters. We have an average size solar array. Symbolically speaking, every hour when the sun is strong, one or two quarters drop off the roof, and rolls into a can. Not much. But the stream never stops. Every once in a while, I go and check the can, and see how much is in it. $600 a year. "Ow. What was that?" "Oh, just another quarter falling off my roof. "

I need some interesting facts or uses on solar energy for my homework.?.?. Please help and hurry up.?.?.?. From what I can tell… Any energy radiated by the sun is solar energy. Solar energy is needed by green plants for the process of photosynthesis When sunlight strikes a solar cell in a solar panel it is converted into electrical power. Solar energy systems require very little maintenance and will last for a long time. \ Solar panels operate silently. Solar panels operate silently. If there is a power outage, you can still have electricity. Solar energy cannot be produced at night or if there is a lot of pollution in the air or clouds over the sun. To run a solar energy system, you do not even need to connect to a gas or power grid.