Tag: silicon

Solar power has been touted among the solutions to the power needs of a hungry world.This introduces the rather fundamental question of how solar panels are in fact manufactured.The the greater part of solar panels out there nowadays are polysilicon.They are the cells you see in panel systems on homes and portable versions on boats and motorhomes.The panels are essentially a grouping of individual cells...

A solar power panel collects energy from the sunlight and converts it into direct current (DC) electricity.Two oppositely charged pieces of silicon are put together below a sheet of glass and as the protons from the sunlight knock the negatively charged neutrons away from the silicon that the electrical field created by the two adjoining pieces of silicon attract the neutron.Little pieces of cable catch the neutrons and when they connect they produce direct current electricity...