The abundance of sun’s power makes it an ideal power source of the future. Given the constant rise of power bills, petroleum products and the conventional means by which we power our lives, looking ahead to other means of energy is a prudent choice.
Solar electricity is made by using solar panels or photovoltaics (PV). These cells are silicon-based. Once exposed to the sun’s rays they react by generating electrical charges. This is the fundamental component of this technology. In the 1880s, an American inventor by the name of Charles Fritts conceived a way of transforming sunlight to electric current. He created the prototype for the first solar panel. He used selenium cells in this prototype. Although not as efficient as the silicon cells we use now, converting less than 1% of light to electricity as compared to 12% for the latest PVs, it broadened man’s imagination in
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