In addition to sunlight, the latter offers access to a spacious bluestone terrace overlooking the water.
Skin exposed to sunlight produces vitamin D, and many North Americans are vitamin D deficient in the winter.
It was put on the market in1982 and its known side effects include increased sensitivity to sunlight and birth defects.
Most people produce vitamin D when their skin is exposed to sunlight.
Vitamin D is manufactured in the skin on exposure to sunlight and people make significantly less in area where there is less daylight.
Certain OLED materials also are damaged by prolonged exposure to sunlight.
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Vitamin D levels, which play a role in the body's immune response and vary with exposure to sunlight, make latitude of residence a possible risk factor.
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The photovoltaic panels generate electricity when exposed to sunlight and are connected to the building's power supply via an inverter synchronised to the electricity main's frequency.
Vitamin D is incorporated in the body when skin is exposed to sunlight of a certain wavelength but in the UK, during winter months, UV-B radiation can be insufficient to properly support vitamin D synthesis in the body.
Vitamin D supplements are recommended for all people at risk of a deficiency, including all pregnant and breastfeeding women, children under five years old, people aged over 65, and people at risk of not getting enough exposure to sunlight.
Namely, that nanotubes can act as semiconductors, enhancing the ability of solar cells to convert sunlight to electricity.
Now BrightSource (and others) use huge arrays of mirrors to direct sunlight to a single spot high on a tower.
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They are concerned that children are no longer exposed to sufficient sunlight to generate healthy levels of the vitamin themselves.
While it is technically possible to convert sunlight into electricity anywhere, it costs far less to do so in areas that receive the most powerful forms of sunlight--sunlight that loses the least amount of radiant energy while moving from space to earth.
Ivanpah is a solar concentrator project, using fields of mirrors, known as heliostats, to concentrate sunlight onto a solar receiver on top of a tower. (This project when finished will include 173, 000 heliostats.) The concentrated sunlight is used to heat water, generating steam which is used to turn a traditional turbine and generator to produce electricity.
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Several of the inflatables could be joined into arrays to trap sunlight or reflect solar power to earth.
But one of the biggest breakthroughs in clean energy was actually in solar power, as designers at Rawlemon created a spherical, sun-tracking glass globe that's able to concentrate sunlight (and moonlight) up to 10, 000 times.
Even the reconnaissance orbiter had to wait until sunlight streamed to the northern lunar region.
Even with the ability to convert sunlight into electricity with high efficiency using photovoltaic solar cells, many challenges prevent us from being able to power all our energy needs with solar panels.
For political leanings I turned to the Sunlight Foundation, a nonprofit that tracks campaign finance.
Thin film technology refers to the use of non-silicon materials to convert sunlight into electricity.
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The SEGS project uses curved mirrors to shine sunlight on pipes that pass in front of the mirrors.
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The three main types of thin film technologies use cadmium-telluride, copper-indium-gallium-selenide and amorphous-silicon to convert sunlight into electricity.
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As the snow melts in spring, the forests are exposed to the sunlight.
Another is to use powerful solar cells to collect sunlight in conjunction with an efficient solid oxide fuel cell.
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Solar cells are also made of silicon, and the latest fashion is to concentrate sunlight on them using mirrors.
At the California Institute of Technology, they're developing a way to turn sunlight and water into fuel for our cars.
The gallium-arsenide cells use low-cost lenses to concentrate sunlight on tiny cells.
Light is used to treat medical conditions including seasonal affective disorder a cyclical depression often tied to low sunlight as well as skin, eye and gastrointestinal conditions.
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