June 2017

July 2016

Google Project Sunroof

By |2018-01-17T18:20:54+05:30July 4th, 2016|

With the world advancing towards automation and innumerable devices making our lives progressively comfortable, the threats posed to our mother nature are being not accounted for. One of the eco friendly tasks that an individual can easily go for is to opt for solar power. There are many places where we receive plenty of sunlight, [...]

Why Solar Panels are installed at certain Angle?

By |2021-01-19T21:04:59+05:30July 4th, 2016|

A hundred and fifty million kilometers away from earth, being a nearly perfect sphere of hot plasma, sun emits around 3.86×1026 watts of energy. But only 1.74×1017 watts of energy is received by earth with the world’s yearly consumption being around 1.8×1013 watts. Harnessing this amount of energy from sun would save the earth [...]

September 2014

Why are our solar panels at an angle to the floor?

By |2018-01-17T18:20:57+05:30September 4th, 2014|

Take a walk up to any terrace and look at the solar panels. They look like slides, don't they? Why ever is that? You would guess, correctly, that we want our solar panels to receive the greatest amount of sunlight. The sun does not rise in the exact east each day. The direction of sun-rise [...]