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I set up my camera on the roof, at an angle that would only capture the sun's track till directly overhead. There is a break in the solar line near the top, which is about right for our 10:30am 57% solar coverage. There is another small break later, and I think that is when it started getting cloudy. So is that break in the line from the eclipse? I can't say for sure, but I think so, and I'm sticking to that reality! (-:
paintcan pinhole camera, 8-hour exposure, paper negative
Solar Energy
This grid-tie system feeds excess solar generated
electricity back into the gri, which returns the favor by
delivering electricity back at night.
Project: 3 Trees
Location: Eagle Rock, California
Description: Addition and remodel to a residence. The house was built around three trees. The project includes: grey water recycling, storm water capture, recycled coal fly ash concrete, solar energy, recycled lumber, passive cooling, thermal rock wall, and mobile shade panels.
jeremy levine design
A solar panel (also solar module, photovoltaic module or photovoltaic panel) is a packaged, connected assembly of photovoltaic cells. The solar panel can be used as a component of a larger photovoltaic system to generate and supply electricity .Solar panels use light energy (photons) from the sun to generate electricity through the photovoltaic effect. The majority of modules use wafer-based crystalline silicon cells or thin-film cells based on cadmium telluride or silicon. The structural (load carrying) member of a module can either be the top layer or the back layer.
Most parts of a solar module can be recycled including up to 95% of certain semiconductor materials or the glass as well as large amounts of ferrous and non-ferrous metals.
Spotted yesterday whilst having lunch in the garden. Never seen one before and it was quite spectacular. It lasted for about 30 mins dipping in and out of intensity.
Photographed from Oxfordshire, UK at 3:45pm. This is too big to be a 22 degree halo.
Taken with a Canon 1100D with standard lens. ISO-100 1/4000 sec
The future's so bright, I gotta wear shades
—Timbuk 3
Courtney peers into one of the heliostats of the BrightSource solar thermal facility in the Negev Desert of Israel.
Each of these flat mirrors aims the sun at a boiler tower, heating it to 1000°F to drive a steam generator, feeding electricity to the grid.
BrightSource believes that this will be the least expensive source of renewable energy and cost competitive with fossil fuels.
I just calculated that for their current projects in the U.S. alone, they will install 2 million of these mirrors… which will power 1.4 million homes… about 1.4 mirrors per home.
Turning light into power, solar arrays are a must-have for the vast majority of satellites.
With solar arrays sized according to the power needs of the mission, there might be thousands of individual solar cells crammed onto a typical satellite.
The design seen here is a thin version of the European 3G30 triple-junction gallium arsenide solar cell. Produced by Azur Space Solar Power, it is one of the most efficient in the world.
It was 60 years ago this month that the first practical solar (or ‘photovoltaic’ cell) was demonstrated at Bell Labs in New Jersey, USA. This new invention’s very first practical use was in powering early satellites, and solar cells remain pivotal to the space industry to this day.
But photovoltaic electricity generation is also on the way to becoming a major terrestrial energy source, projected to supply close to 3% of global electricity demand by 2020.
This bright future will be the focus of the European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, this September.
Thousands of experts will discuss the progress of photovoltaic technology across – as well as off – the planet.
Historically, the space industry has helped to drive advances in photovoltaics. For instance, the gallium arsenide cells powering today’s satellites are more than twice as efficient as those installed on domestic rooftops.
With such successes in mind, ESA has begun an initiative devoted to the synergies between space and energy technology called Space for Energy, with solar energy a major element.
Meanwhile, next week sees the ESA-organised European Space Power Conference in Noordwijkerhout, the Netherlands, covering all aspects of electrical power for space missions, including batteries, power components and nuclear power.
Credit: Azur Space Solar Power
My Hubby set up his telescope with with the solar filter for viewing the solar eclipse this afternoon. By the time I got home it had totally clouded up but the clouds broke just long enough for us to get a good viewing. I was really surprised to get this shot using my cell phone with the viewer. I can't wait to get him the camera mount for my canon!
Breathe deep the gathering gloom,
Watch lights fade from every room.
Bedsitter people look back and lament,
Another day's useless energy spent.
Impassioned lovers wrestle as one,
Lonely man cries for love and has none.
New mother picks up and suckles her son,
Senior citizens wish they were young.
Cold hearted orb that rules the night,
Removes the colours from our sight.
Red is grey and yellow white.
But we decide which is right.
And which is an illusion? "Graeme Edge", Moody Blues
August 21, 2017
I had an even WORSE contraption set up to view and photograph the solar eclipse that wasn't working at all!
Using backwards binoculars was my son's idea. He taped off one of the oculars, and then we mounted the binoculars on my tripod. A shade screen was necessary to block out a shadow area around the moon's shadow, so an "umbrella" of construction paper did the trick.
He filmed a time-lapse with the iPhone in the picture. The only problem was that the sun moved enough to "fall off" the white board. Still - a cool contraption to safely view and photograph the solar eclipse!
We'll be more prepared in 2024!
Brewster, Massachusetts
Cape Cod - USA
Photo by brucetopher
© Bruce Christopher 2017
All Rights Reserved
...always learning - critiques welcome.
Tools: Canon 7D & iPhone 6s.
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This is our source of power in orbit.
Das ist unsere Stromquelle im Orbit.
Credits: ESA/NASA
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The solar eclipse of August 21, 2017, filtered through the clouds over my house in Southern New Jersey at 2:44 EDT which was the maximum eclipse time here.
Replacements for the Tridents on route 38 were twelve from a batch of nineteen Wright Solar-bodied Scania L94s delivered in 2005, which wore 'It's a Breeze' branding. One of these, 3610 (KE55 GWA), is the subject of OOC model OM46005 released in June 2007; the production run was split into two alternative destinations with half showing Luton, but this is one of the other 50% destined for Dunstable.
Solar Panels, Southchurch Adult Community College, Ambleside Drive, Southchurch. Picture Steve O'Connell 22-10-15
Solar eclipse as seen from Dongducheon, South Korea on July 22nd, 2009. No post processing other than dust removal. Sadly, 400mm is not nearly close enough!
Our sun, like all other stars, generates its energy through nuclear fusion: inside it, 564 million tons of hydrogen are fused to 560 million tons of helium every second. The "missing" four million tons are radiated as energy. This is more energy per second than has been produced by our global civilization through the burning of fossil fuels since the beginning of industrialization !
Solar Panels, Southchurch Adult Community College, Ambleside Drive, Southchurch. Picture Steve O'Connell 22-10-15
Finally getting around to posting my April 8, 2024 solar eclipse series shot on film. Because our city was in the zone of totality, we received quite an influx of people. It was quite the experience to witness a total solar eclipse.
Lamoureux Park - Cornwall Ontario
Leica MP
Summicron-M 35mm f/2 Asph.
Kodak Portra 400
As well as all the wind turbines we saw travelling through Austria, we also saw loads of solar panels.
Here Comes The Sun. George Harrison.
We had some clouds at the horizon just before sunset, but not as many as for the recent total lunar eclipse, which was completely invisible due to thick cloud cover. So I got a chance to get a picture of the partial solar eclipse. This image was taken from Raven Rocks Overlook on the Blue Ridge Parkway using a 1000x neutral density filter in addition to the sunlight filtering through some clouds just before it disappeared behind Grandfather Mountain. Not only can you see the section of the sun covered up by the moon, but also some sunspots.
During this solar eclipse I was 2 km east of the radio telescope of Parkes in Australia, planning to take photos of the eclipsed setting Sun with the 64 metre dish. A very rare opportunity. Unfortunately the sky was cloudy and I missed the sunset, but I was able to take some photos of the eclipse about half an hour before sunset, when the Sun emerged from the clouds for some minutes.
400mm f/64 lens, exposure 1/8000 at 100 ISO.