How a solar-powered home works
Series: Eco works
Publisher: Franklin Watts
Published: 2015
Place of publication: United Kingdom
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781445139050
Subjects: Solar energy; Juvenile literature
Description: Take a look at the exciting world of solar energy and how we can use it to heat a building, power an oven and how one day it may even be used on roads to charge your car as you drive. Explore the world's most revolutionary and exciting ecological developments in Eco Works. This series for 9+ readers examines how green technology is finding inventive solutions to some of the most pressing problems facing us today. From sourcing sustainable energy and reducing our carbon footprints through to creating recycling processes and community gardens that provide our growing urban populations with green space and food, find out exactly how and why 'eco works'.
Table of contents: title: Energy from the sun; title: Using solar power; title: Solar thermal power; title: Solar thermal power outdoors; title: Electricity from sunlight; title: How solar cells work; title: The solar system; title: A regular supply; title: Solar electricity outside; title: The limitations of solar power; title: Solar power for everyone; title: Where in the world?; title: Solar-powered future.