In 1953, Gerald Pearson, a physicist at Bell Laboratories, accidentally created a silicon solar cell. The silicon cell was several times more percentage of energy a solar cell converts into electricity from the sunlight that hits it is ...
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Solar energy harnesses the power of the sun.
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We would like to acknowledge the help of the following: • Dr C L Gupta and Mrs. Shipra Gupta (Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Puducherry) and Mr. John Harper and Mr. Gilles Guigan for the photograph of the solar bowl at Auroville.
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Only after the 11 hens were reunited in the solar hen house did their feed efficiency of 2.35 pounds of grain per pound of eggs compare favorably with the commercial results of 2.65 pounds of grain per pound of eggs (3] and Table 3.