solar energy
English
Noun
solar energy (uncountable)
- Energy in the form of electromagnetic radiation emitted from the Sun; especially that part of this energy that is converted into usable thermal or electrical energy by man.
- 1981 December 6, “Imports planned to meet energy needs”, in 自由中國週報 [Free China Weekly], volume XXII, number 48, Taipei, ISSN 0016-0318, OCLC 1786626, page 4:
- The Energy Research Institute under the Industrial Technological Research Institute has decided to build the nation’s first solar energy plant at Chutung Township in Hsinchu county.
- 2013 September-October, Katie L. Burke, “In the News”, in American Scientist:
- Oxygen levels on Earth skyrocketed 2.4 billion years ago, when cyanobacteria evolved photosynthesis: the ability to convert water and carbon dioxide into carbohydrates and waste oxygen using solar energy.
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Synonyms
- solar power (broadly synonymous despite precise differentiability of energy from power (energy per time unit))
Hypernyms
- energy
- renewable energy
Coordinate terms
- nuclear energy
- water power (broadly coordinate despite precise differentiability of energy from power (energy per time unit))
- wind energy
Translations
energy from the sun
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