User:SimplyToti/Project Wiki Page About Solar Power

Hello, my name is Victoria and this page is dedicated around the college research paper I'm doing for my information technology class. The topic I chose was solar power, but reading the title you knew that already. I understand that no, solar power is not information technology in the sense that my class wants, but I couldn't really find enough information about the things I did want to do or legit information. I would have asked my professors for the help, but it seems like they wouldn't be much help. Whoops, maybe I shouldn't say that we're they can read it, but it seems like they don't really read these things or they just don't care about a complaining student.

I digress, this page is supposed to be two to three paragraphs about my topic, so I guess I'll jump right in. Solar power, as many already know, is a relatively new process in which we harness electric energy from the sun's rays. I chose this topic because it was something that I was genuinely interested and I felt like not enough people really understood much about how it worked or why we're not using it if its the most clean and efficient reusable energy we have. First off, there are solar panels which are made up of photovoltaic cells that convert sunlight directly into energy. Woah, wait, doesn't that seem to skimp over a few details? Well I guess it doesn't really matter because this only has to be a little bit longer, so I'll just keep it simple. Attached to the solar panels is an inverter which changes the energy into electricity. Then the newformed electricity is transferred over into your power breaker and BAM- power from the sun.

As to why we're not using it? Well, solar power is quite unreliable seeing as how it relies on the sun being out. Not to mention that unless everyone built a panel on their roofs, the way to transfer the electricity from the inverter in the deserts to your personal power breaker is... rather expensive to build. But I guess that if we just threw in some wind power and government funding into the holes, in theory it should be fine! Except for the other issue of the oil industry... Hmm, what to do about that...