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At a certain location, the solar power per unit area reaching Earth’s surface is 200?

At a certain location, the solar power per unit area reaching Earth’s surface is 200 W/ m^2, averaged over a 24-hour day. If the average power requirement in your home is 3 kW and you can convert solar power to electric power with 10 % efficiency, how large a collector area will you need to meet all your household energy requirements from solar energy? (Will a collector fit in your yard or on your roof?

Please Help. It would be much appreciated. Thank so much!

It’s simple math.
1 m^2 of solar panel generates an average 10%*200 W = 20 W.
You need an average 3000 W, which is 150 times as much, so you need 150 m^2 of solar panel.
An average power of 3000 W is pretty large for a typical house. Is there a sawmill hidden inside?

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Desserts by the Yard $23.41 A dazzling array of incredible desserts by Spago`s pastry chef to the stars presents an array of tempting recipes for the author`s signature take on cr?me br?l?e, chocolate caramel tart, oatmeal raisin cookies, souffl?ed cr?me fra?che pancakes with strawberry sauce, and many more, accompanied by handy baking techniques, tricks, and personal anecdotes.

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Nanostructured Materials for Solar Energy Conversion $229.73 Nanostructured Materials for Solar Energy Conversion covers a wide variety of materials and device types from inorganic materials to organic materials. This book deals with basic semiconductor physics, modelling of nanostructured solar cell, nanostructure of conventional solar cells such as silicon, CIS and CdTe, dye-sensitized solar cell, organic solar cell, photosynthetic materials, fullerene, extremely thin absorber (ETA) solar cell, quantum structured solar cell, intermediate band solar cell, carbon nanotube, etc. including basic principle and the latest results. There are many books written on conventional p-n junction solar cells, but few books focus on new concepts in this area.* Focuses on the use of nanostructured materials for solar energy* Looks at a wide variety of materials and device types* Covers both organic and inorganic materials

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Solar Car Book (Hardcover) $20.85 The Solar Car Book is full of illuminating solar science facts and comes with everything you need to build a cool solar-powered racecar: wheels, axles, motors, wires and a genuine one-volt solar cell. No glue, no nails, no tape and (best of all) no batteries required. Build this car today and it will run forever, thanks to that big battery in the sky. This book includes rubber bands that contain Natural Rubber Latex which may cause allergic reactions.Comes With: 6 pages of shrink plastic• Create wonderful things • Be good • Have fun

Solar System (Hardcover) $17.32 A guide to the solar system provides a photographic tour of its eight planets, as well as asteroids and comets, and presents its history from its birth to the present.

Switching to Solar (Paperback) $13.73 Switching to Solar charts the dramatic rise of solar power from its off-grid origins in the 1970`s to the fast-growing multibillion-dollar industry it is today. Here, for the first time, tech journalist Bob Johnstone tells the inspiring and optimistic story of how determined activists and enlightened visionaries in Germany developed a surprisingly simple and innovative policy mechanism that is now driving the solar boom. Switching to Solar explains why Germany leads the world in harnessing clean energy from the sun, and what valuable, cost-effective, and environmentally beneficial lessons we all can derive from this success.