• Question: how do we encreas more energy from the sun

    Asked by Megan and alissa to Áine, Ciarán, Eoin, Lydia, Victoria on 12 Nov 2014.
    • Photo: Lydia Bach

      Lydia Bach answered on 12 Nov 2014:


      Hey Megan and Alissa,

      we cant increase the energy from the sun, the sun is massive and way too far away and we wouldn’t know how to do it. Also the sun is producing a lot of energy, so its not necessary to increase the energy from the sun.
      What we can do is making better solar pannels to yield solar energy more efficiently.

    • Photo: Ciarán O'Brien

      Ciarán O'Brien answered on 13 Nov 2014:


      The sun is producing as much energy as it can, It would only generate more if it had started out bigger.

      We can build more solar panels here on earth to catch more of the energy we do get. If humanity was REALLY thinking ahead, they’d get together and build big satellites to go closer to the sun and catch huge amounts of solar power that could be ferried back to Earth by giant capacitor ships or something, but that’s probably not going to happen 🙁

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