Discover The Many Interesting Solar Energy Facts

Here are some interesting solar energy facts:

1. Solar energy takes 8 minutes 17 seconds to travel from the sun’s surface to earth.
2. Solar energy will run out in 5 billion years as the sun will run out of fuel.
3. A Swiss scientist, Horace de Saussure invented the world’s first solar energy collector, or ‘hot box’ in 1767.
4. In the 1830s, British astronomer – John Herschel used a solar energy collector box to cook food during an expedition to Africa (talk about innovation)
5. Do you know that Albert Einstein won the Nobel Prize in 1921 for his experiments with solar energy and photovoltaics.
6. The amount of sunlight that fall on the earth every minute is enough to meet the world’s energy demands for an entire year.
7. If we could only covered a small fraction of the Sahara desert with photovoltaic cells, we could generate all the world’s electricity requirements.
8. All TV and communications satellites are powered by solar energy using the photovoltaic cells.