Can cars run on solar energy?

Due to the widespread lack of efficient public transportation, it is necessary for most of us to rely on private transportation and have a car. The best thing is to make sure that this private transport is as environmentally friendly as possible, which leads us to wonder if a car can be powered by solar energy.

The amount of energy from the sun that reaches the earth’s surface every day is staggering. It’s easy that there’s enough energy there to power all of human industry and transportation multiple times over. A large amount of this energy is reflected into space from the surface as light or radiated into space as infrared energy, which is another name for heat.

The great advantage of solar panels is that they generate electricity from sunlight that already falls on the surface of the earth. If that energy had not been converted into electricity in the panel, it would have been absorbed by the earth and then released as heat, reflected in space or used by a plant to produce sugars. The electricity from the panel can be transported and used elsewhere. When used, the energy from electricity is finally released as heat. This means that a solar panel effectively converts sunlight into heat, but allows that conversion to do some work, resulting in the heat moving to a different location.

This compares favorably with the use of fossil fuels as an energy source. Because these fuels come from long-buried sources, the heat they add to the atmosphere when they burn is in addition to what would otherwise be there. This means that there is a net increase in energy in the atmosphere, and it is this that raises concern regarding the issue of climate change.

This makes it clear that being able to use sunlight to power our vehicles is a desirable option. But is this a realistic option? The fact is that this is already being done. Electric car owners use the electrical grid instead of oil to charge the batteries that power their vehicles. All that needs to be added to this scenario is getting the electricity from a renewable source, such as a home solar installation or a solar power plant, and one can effectively drive in sunlight.

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