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a star eight minutes away politely offering you free electricity forever.
means Relating to the sun, or powered by the sun's light and heat.
from From Latin solaris, "of the sun," built on sol, the Latin word for the sun itself — a cousin of Greek helios and the source of names like Sol and the cheery Spanish sol. The same root warms English words from solstice (when the sun seems to "stand still") to solarium (a sun-room) and the sunny disposition of someone who is sol-arly inclined.
- travel time
- sunlight takes 8 minutes to reach Earth
- hourly surplus
- Earth gets a year's energy each 90 minutes
- price crash
- panel costs fell over 90% since 2010
- silent power
- no moving parts, no noise, no fuel
- core delay
- a photon takes millennia to escape the Sun's core
parker solar probe — nasa spacecraft that reached 430 mph closest approach to the sun in 2021
ivanpah solar power facility — 373 mw concentrated solar plant in california desert using 173,500 heliostats
tengger desert solar park — 850 mw solar farm in china's ningxia region, one of world's largest