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We have 191 million buildings in the EU. The mission now is to convert the entire building stock of Europe to partial green power plants that can collect solar energy on the roofs, wind energy off the sides of the building, geothermal energy from the ground below the building, biomass energy from the conversion of garbage in the building, etc.
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You are referring of coarse to PV(photo voltaic) however, electricity is not the only way to collect and use solar energy.
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Papa Mau faced its own challenges, including long stretches of cloudy days that made it difficult for its two solar panels to collect enough energy to power its sensor arrays.
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The solar energy industry also stands to collect on the new green machines.
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Solar thermal energy is low cost and easy to collect, and 100% efficient.
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Given the risks of aiming such a powerful beam of high-intensity radiation at an Earth ground station, as well as the cost of building billions of dollars in infrastructure to collect the energy in space, the efficiencies you can get from terrestrial solar power seem a safer bet--at least for now.
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And a team of IBM researchers is developing a super-efficient solar concentrating dish that could collect 80 percent of incoming sunlight and convert it into energy.
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Also, while silicon solar cells do not need direct sunlight to work, they will collect a lot less energy indoors or on a cloudy day.
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