Since the 1950s, NASA has harnessed the energy of the Sun to power spacecraft and drive scientific discovery across our solar system. Today, NASA continues to advance solar panel technology and test new innovations. A portrait of French scientist Alexandre Edmond Becquerel, taken sometime in the mid 1800s.
Yet in that short time, solar power has revealed the Sun’s limitless potential to power an increasingly technological society. Since the 1950s, NASA has harnessed the energy of the Sun to power spacecraft and drive scientific discovery across our solar system. Today, NASA continues to advance solar panel technology and test new innovations.
Today, NASA continues to advance solar panel technology and test new innovations. A portrait of French scientist Alexandre Edmond Becquerel, taken sometime in the mid 1800s. Even before the light bulb, scientists had inklings of the power locked up in a ray of sunlight.
With the ability to harness the sun’s power, we would have clean, renewable solar energy.” This work was supported by a Discovery Grant from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). A. Chen holds a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Electrochemistry and Nanoscience.
These immense energy demands are driving rising greenhouse gases in the Earth’s atmosphere. We need a more sustainable way to produce and store energy. Chemistry professor Aicheng Chen and his research team at the University of Guelph are exploring a promising method to harness energy from the sun called photoelectrochemical water splitting.
A leading laboratory in photonics and renewable energy at the University of Ottawa has developed a new method for measuring the solar energy produced by bifacial solar panels, the double-sided solar technology which is expected to meet increased global energy demands moving forward.
Harnessing the power of solar panels
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