Infinite Energy Creates Better Life

Abstract

As the world moves towards sustainability, renewable energy development is driven in most countries as an alternative offer to the use of non-renewable and polluting fossil fuels. One such alternative is solar energy, which is the versatile technology used to harness the sun’s energy and make it usable. It refers also to capturing the energy from the sun, collected elsewhere (i.e. the Earth) and subsequently converting it into electricity. Due to the non-constant nature of solar energy, collector and storage unit components are required to have a functional solar energy generator. The collector simply collects the radiation that falls on it and converts a fraction of it to other forms of energy (electricity or heat). The storage unit is required to store excess energy during the periods of maximum productivity and release it when the productivity drops. The proposed study is aimed to explore the feasibility of solar energy as an infinite energy to be restored and used as it needs. The merit of this study lies in the fact that solar energy creates better life (such as cost reduction, resource availability, eco-friendly. and sustainability) should it is harvested, stored and utilized considerably in a holistic way. Moreover, it may enhance independency of electricity supply, particularly in remote areas where access to power supply are limited. It is anticipated that the study will not only create a further interdisciplinary research platform for fundamental studies on solar energy harvesting, storage, and utilization, but also a research that leads to technology transfer to industry as it is lauded as a renewable and an inexhaustible fuel source, environmentally friendly due to its nature of pollution – and often noise – free.