{"id":270337,"date":"2019-04-22T07:22:28","date_gmt":"2019-04-22T07:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=270337"},"modified":"2019-04-22T07:22:28","modified_gmt":"2019-04-22T07:22:28","slug":"warming-up-to-the-heat-from-the-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/warming-up-to-the-heat-from-the-sun\/","title":{"rendered":"Warming up to the heat from the sun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the mention of \u2018solar\u2019, most of us think about arrays of blue, sun-facing panels that generate electricity. That is because \u2018solar photovoltaic\u2019, for historical reasons, grew very fast, in India and elsewhere, and became ubiquitous. But there is another \u2018solar\u2019, simpler and traditional, which is known to give a better bang for every buck invested. To wit, \u2018solar thermal\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Solar PV\u2019 works by photons in sun\u2019s rays knocking off electrons in the semi-conducting material in the panels and channels them through a wire\u2014the stream of electrons is electricity. Solar PV, therefore, works best where there is lot of sunlight. Solar thermal systems, in contrast, suck up sun\u2019s heat and conduct it to where it is needed \u2013 such as for drying of spices or fish or wet paint.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the mention of \u2018solar\u2019, most of us think about arrays of blue, sun-facing panels that generate electricity. That is because \u2018solar photovoltaic\u2019, for historical reasons, grew very fast, in India and elsewhere, and became ubiquitous. But there is another \u2018solar\u2019, simpler and traditional, which is known to give a better bang for every buck invested. To wit, \u2018solar thermal\u2019. \u2018Solar PV\u2019 works by photons in sun\u2019s rays knocking off electrons in the semi-conducting material in the panels and channels them through a wire\u2014the stream of electrons is electricity. Solar PV, therefore, works best where there is lot of sunlight. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-270337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}