Wednesday, October 21, 2009

NCETM | Maths in work | Using solar panels

Overview: Matt Hobby works for the National Centre for Atmospheric Science. His role is to design and develop instrumentation and to build prototypes. One of the devices he deals with is an automatic weather station. These are often installed in remote places around the world and need to be powered by solar energy. Voltaic panels are placed in sunny locations to charge lead-acid batteries which will power the weather station. The energy generated by the solar panel must be greater than the ...
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