This can be direct as withphotovoltaics (PV), or indirect as withconcentrating solar power (CSP), where the sun''s energy is focused to boil water which is then used to provide power. Solar power has the potential to provide over 1,000 times total world energy consumption in 2008, though it provided only 0.02% of the total that year.
The desert has ideal conditions for solar plants.沙漠有建造太阳能发电厂的理想条件。 The standard version of the phone contains a non-solar battery.标准版的手机包含一个非太阳能电池。 The project "Lighting a Billion Lives" provides solar lanterns in rural India."点亮十亿人的生命"项目为印度农村地区提供太阳能灯具。 (太阳能在Cambridge Chinese (Simplified)-English