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N.C. State U. jump-starts solar energy research
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January 11, 2002
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(The Technician) (U-WIRE) RALEIGH, N.C. -- The sun is 150 million kilometers
away, and it is more than 1 million degrees Celsius at its core. According
to EnergyEd, a Web site used to educate students on energy production
and its uses, if we could harness the sun, there is enough solar power
reaching the earth to provide all of our energy needs 10,000 times
over.
To further the study of this energy source and to research the potential
of solar energy, North Carolina State University recently has been
awarded $500,000 from Solar Amp for continued research in the field
of solar energy.
Jonathon Lindsey, a Glaxo University professor of chemistry at NCSU,
is leading a ...
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