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• The sun is roughly 4.6 billion years old and yet is considered middle-aged.
• Though the sun is 90 million miles from the earth, it takes less than 10 minutes for light to travel from that much of distance.
• The sun contains 99.86% of all the mass in our solar system.
• The Sun is an almost perfect sphere. There is only a 10 kilometre difference in its polar diameter compared to its equatorial diameter. Considering the vast expanse of the Sun, this means it is the closest thing to a perfect sphere that has been observed in nature.
• An area 1/15th the size of Egypt covered in solar panels could generate enough energy to power the entire planet. That is, assuming today's panel efficiency of and technology. Imagine not needing any additional power from coal, oil, natural gas, or nuclear power. 
• Imagine being able to eliminate fracking, surface mining, drilling, refining, transporting, and burning harmful fossil fuels.Now imaging creating an additional 2,000,000 global jobs in the clean, renewable energy industry. Now stop imagining. It is a very real, achievable goal in our lifetime.
•  The earth gets 174 Petawatts of incoming solar radiation in the upper atmosphere. About 30% is reflected back to space and the rest is absorbed by oceans, clouds and land masses.
• More than one million Earth's can fit inside the sun.
• The Sun is 24,000-26,000 light years from the galactic centre and it takes the Sun 225-250 million years to complete an orbit of the centre of the  Milky Way.

The earliest known record of the direct conversion of solar radiation into mechanical power belongs to Auguste Mouchout, a mathematics instructor at the Lyce de Tours. Mouchout began his solar work in 1860 after expressing grave concerns about his country's dependence on coal. "It would be prudent and wise not to fall asleep regarding this quasi-security," he wrote. By the following year he was granted the first patent for a motor running on solar power. In 1878, Mouchout exhibited a large, solar-powered steam engine invention at the Paris Exposition. 

In 1881 the French Ministry of Public Works, intrigued by Mouchout's machine, appointed two commissioners to assess its cost efficiency. But after some 900 observations at Montpelier, a city in southern France, and Constantine, Algeria, the government deemed the device a technical success but a practical failure. One reason was that France had recently improved its system for transporting coal and developed a better relationship with England, on which it was dependent for that commodity. The price of coal had thus dropped, rendering the need for alternatives less attractive. Unable to procure further financial assistance, Mouchout returned to his academic pursuits.

The first development of the modern solar cell technology also began during the Industrial Revolution when French physicist Alexandre Edmond Becquerellar first demonstrated the photovoltaic effect; the ability for a solar cell to convert sunlight into electricity, in 1839. 

In 1883, American inventor Charles Fritts created the world's first rooftop solar array in New York. Fritos coated the panels with selenium to produce an electrical current. 

More to come.

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