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Definition of Solar power
1. Noun. Energy from the sun that is converted into thermal or electrical energy. "The amount of energy falling on the earth is given by the solar constant, but very little use has been made of solar energy"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Solar Power
Literary usage of Solar power
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Projected Costs of Generating Electricity: 2005 Update by OECD Nuclear Energy Agency, International Energy Agency (2005)
"solar power plants Responses to the questionnaire provided input data for six
solar power plants in four countries, including one solar thermal parabolic ..."
2. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by H.W. Wilson Company (1914)
"See aleo solar power plants. Solar halos. See Halos (Meteorology). ... Solar-power
plant at Cairo, Egypt. 11. Lit 23, 44. Energy from the sun. ..."
3. The Problem of Space Travel: The Rocket Motor by Hermann Noordung, Ernest Stuhlinger, J. D. Hunley, Jennifer Garland (1995)
"The solar power Plant The solar power plant for that purpose (Figure 77) represents,
therefore, ... Diagram of the solar power plant of the space station. ..."
4. Personal Cars and China =: Si Ren Jiao Che Yu Zhongguo by Zhongguo gong cheng yuan, National Research Council (U.S.) (2003)
"solar power can be converted directly to electricity, but there may be applications
where the energy losses associated with a regenerative fuel cell are ..."