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Solar energy was one of the Engineering and technology good articles, but it has been removed from the list. There are suggestions below for improving the article to meet the good article criteria. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.

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This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 11 January 2022 and 28 April 2022. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): 00BlueSky00, Redsoxs33 (article contribs). Peer reviewers: Hla19, Springfrog32, Louistheyounger.

Duplication with solar power

Currently, solar power as a higher quality article is both redundant and losing viewership, as "solar energy" is a more popular term than "solar power". This article should talk about energy from the Sun in general, not just about it as electricity. CactiStaccingCrane (talk) 17:02, 6 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Good idea - I suggest you go ahead. Also maybe the photovoltaics section should be removed. Chidgk1 (talk) 17:39, 10 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@CactiStaccingCrane December views show this continues. I tried removing photovoltaics from here - don’t know if that will make a difference Chidgk1 (talk) 09:27, 6 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Moved a para from lead to Solar_power#Cost_per_watt Chidgk1 (talk) 09:34, 6 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Maybe floating solar and solar aircraft should be moved elsewhere? If so where? Chidgk1 (talk) 09:40, 6 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Sunlight للطاقة المتجددة

More information for the solar energy systems in Egypt.

The main difference between poly crystalline panels and mono crystalline panels? Ans: the main difference is the panel efficiency, mono crystalline efficiency have reached 23%.

Sunlight solar energy is Sol agent for Quantum Solar and the importer for Ja solar in Egypt for more than 5 years صن لايت للطاقة المتجددة الوكيل الحصرة لشركة Quantum Solar و مستورد معتمد لشركة JA solar فى مصر لاكثر من 5 سنوات. 2C0F:FC89:108:BB5F:4C48:29D5:7416:EEB7 (talk) 14:41, 3 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Talk:Energy in Egypt or Talk:Solar panel might be a better place for you to suggest changes but please first read Wikipedia:Conflict of interest Chidgk1 (talk) 19:54, 3 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Efficiency

Efficiency of a machine is defined as the percentage of retio of our put (i.e work done by the machine) to the input work (i.e work done on the machine) Efficiency = output work /input work × 100%

' 2400:F0C0:1:B648:7856:7458:3A1F:F6C8 (talk) 15:29, 6 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Remove Molten Salt Section?

I'm not sure the section on molten salt belongs here, and if it does it should be much shorter and concise. Currently it's a very out-of-place, long-winded description of the tech plus a detailed list of a few experimental concentrated solar power projects that use it. I think this information would be better suited on Concentrated_solar_power and Thermal_energy_storage. Also note that while these two technologies were promising several decades ago they are obsolete now for commercial power production thanks to the massive cost decreases of photovoltaic and electric batteries, making the prominence of molten salt on this article seem even less appropriate on a general article about solar energy. Lifterus (talk) 23:21, 13 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Wiki Education assignment: Engineering in the 21st Century - Section 002

This article is currently the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 19 August 2024 and 3 December 2024. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): E102G13 (article contribs). Peer reviewers: Jabakah.

— Assignment last updated by Jabakah (talk) 02:48, 10 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for working on the important solar panel article as well as this one. As you are looking at both articles might you be able to sort out some of the duplication? Chidgk1 (talk) 13:04, 16 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Wiki Education assignment: Engineering in the 21st Century - Section 003

This article is currently the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 19 August 2024 and 3 December 2024. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): AdGilJam (article contribs).

— Assignment last updated by AdGilJam (talk) 20:12, 6 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]