3. Are there Solar power plants in Illinois? If so, how many and where?
4. Explain how Solar Panels work.
5. How long does it take for the sunlight to reach the earth?
6. What is the largest form of energy use in the US? How long can the country sustain using this form? What would be our best alternative to this form? Why?
7. What is an active solar collector?
8. What is a passive solar collector?
9. How can solar energy be used to reduce the current use of fossil fuels?
10. Explain how solar energy creates heat.
Find a solar cooker/collector you would like to build at home. Draw a basic example. Are you going to have a partner? If so, who?
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4. yu’ll hafta ask Albert Einstein for that. Him kame up with a theeree for it in 1905. In 1928, got nobel pries for it.
5. 8.3165 minuts (1 AU=8.316473 lite-minuts)
6. US enerjee yuze:
oil=36.6 Quad (38.8%)
nat gas=21.8 Quad (23.2 %)
koel=21.6 Quad (22.9%)
nukleeer=7.2 Quad(7.6%)
hydro=3.6 Quad (3.8%)
7. aktiv=yuze sun tu heet sumthang or boil water & then yuze that tu tern terbin & make lektrons muve around.
8. passive=solar sells
9. evree lektron kount
10. absorb enerjee bekum heet. Even if yu yuze it for sumthang els, all enerjee end up as heet (entropy).