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Wednesday, July 7, 2010
solar power / solar energy
The generation of electricity from sunlight. This can be direct as with photovoltaics (PV), or indirect as with concentrating solar power (CSP), where the sun's energy is focused to boil water which is then used to provide power. Source: Wikipedia
