Solar Development Cooperative
Lighting the Way With Creation's Original Remedy
Photovoltaic (PV) cells generate electricity by capturing the sun's light -not its heat.
The term "photovoltaic" is derived from two words:
"photo," meaning "light" and "voltaic" meaning "current."
Bridges are historically romanticized as metaphors for gateways to magical new lands.
Psychologically, they represent the power to lead us from familiar ground into new paradigms and opportunities.
Scientists, architects and energy managers share the wonderful opportunity
to construct strong and beautiful bridges to the future as we unite the dream and the reality
of building-integrated photovoltaics (BI-PV) within the built environment, today.
Josie Close, PhD project coordinator of the Photovoltaic Study for the Department of Architecture
at the University of Hong Kong describes the photovoltaic effect as follows:
Sunlight can be described as a steady stream of tiny bullets of energy (photons) moving at incredibly high speed.
Photovoltaic cells are responsive to the sun's light rays because they are made of light-sensitive materials.
Photovoltaics is the immediate conversion of sunlight into directed electricity.
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