As one of the most abundant sources of energy on the planet, solar energy is also a very reliable and clean source of energy. The radiant energy in solar energy, when converted into electricity and heat, can provide a great deal of energy for your home or business. How to utilize solar energy to serve people in their daily lives has become a hot topic of discussion in recent years. Here are fifty-one common uses of solar energy.
1. Utilizing solar power to generate electricity
With the growth of the solar industry, more and more families are choosing to install solar photovoltaic systems to power their homes. Solar panels work by absorbing energy from sunlight and converting it into electricity. The power generated by this system is completely free to the user, and any excess power can be sold to the grid for a profit.
2. Solar Water Heating
More homes have solar water heaters than solar panel systems. Solar water heaters heat water in a tank through the energy of the sun, and there are two main types of solar water heaters: active and passive solar water heaters. This hot water will be supplied for a variety of household uses, such as washing clothes, bathing, washing dishes and so on.
3.Solar energy supply for heating system
During the cold winter months, solar heating systems are able to utilize the sun’s ability to pair a home’s hot air system to keep the interior of the home warm.
4. Solar panel
The solar panel is one of the most important components within a solar PV system, and it is capable of storing the excess power output from the solar panels during the day in order to properly power appliances at night. At the same time, it can also be used as a backup power source for the home in certain emergency situations.
5. Solar Generator
Solar generators are often used when traveling or camping. It consists of portable solar panels, inverter, charger and solar cells. It can absorb solar energy and convert it into electricity to meet the demand for power during off-grid periods.
The storage capacity of some large generators can even meet the normal operation of the whole house for several hours.
6. Solar Electric Lighting
The main use of solar power in the home is to power solar lights to meet lighting needs. Since home lighting consumes more electricity, using solar lights can save you more money compared to purchasing electricity from the grid.
7. Solar Ventilation Fan
During the hot summer months or when the temperature is usually high in certain areas where special groups of people are concentrated, installing solar ventilation fans can reduce the use of air conditioning systems, which not only saves money during the summer months, but also requires fewer panels to run than installing a full set of solar panels.
8. Solar Ventilation System
Large solar ventilation systems are commonly used for commercial and industrial purposes. Utilizing solar energy to run a ventilation system reduces the energy costs of preheating building air in cold climates.
9. Solar Powered Hot Air
Hot air solar systems work by using solar energy to heat the air near the walls or roof, and these roofs and walls are often made of materials with excellent heat absorption properties, and the resulting hot air is circulated throughout the house by means of recirculating fans.
10. Solar Water Pumps
Some heating systems require water pumps to circulate the water, and these pumps can be powered by solar energy, and if your solar system is equipped with a battery pack, this means that your solar pumps can run 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
11. Solar Heated Swimming Pools
Most families nowadays have a small swimming pool in their yard, but during the fall and winter months, the water in the pool can get too cold or even freeze making it impossible to get in the water. At this time you need to have a solar system to collect the pool water to be heated and re-injected into the pool, repeat the above steps, you can keep the pool water temperature is not too low.
12. Solar Hot Tub
The working principle of solar hot tub is similar to that of solar heated swimming pool, the cool water needs to be heated by solar collector. Compared to a large body of water like a swimming pool, it is obviously much easier to utilize solar heating for hot tubs. That is to say, there is no need to worry about the solar collector can not make the bathtub water to reach a higher temperature, but in the summer we need to pay attention to not let the bathtub heat overheating!
13. Solar Landscape Lighting
The popularity of solar landscape lighting technology is very high, these landscape lights have their own independent solar panels and rechargeable batteries. Solar lights used in landscape lighting, you can take advantage of its long-term exposure to the sun’s characteristics, daytime can be stored for 24 hours of electricity.
14. Home Cooking
A large portion of home cooking appliances run on electricity. Using solar stoves allows you to cook any type of thing and will help you save money on your electricity bill.
15. Holiday Lighting
On some special holidays, you may need some temporary lighting to cope with these scenes, solar lighting is a good choice, and there are many seasonal solar lighting kits on the market for different holiday needs.
16. Solar Security Lighting
In some special occasions that require attention from pedestrians or at gates and fences of compounds, it is very convenient to use solar lamps for security lighting. These solar lamps have independent power supply properties as well as high brightness and waterproof functions, which make it very suitable for playing the role of security warnings.
17. Solar Dryer
In humid weather, clothes may take a longer time to dry naturally, which can bring a lot of inconvenience to life. Solar dryers can utilize solar energy to dry wet clothes faster.
18.Solar Home Landscaping
Putting different colors, shapes, and forms of solar lights everywhere in your home, you can decorate your home without applying grid power, which means it’s a free home beautification.
19. Desalination
Solar energy can be used to desalinate seawater, making it suitable for drinking and irrigation.
20. Energy for Agricultural Systems
Some of the agricultural equipment powered by solar energy can be used in irrigation systems, greenhouses or to help with other agricultural applications.
21. Heat for industrial processes
In many industrial processes, such as the production of steel, cement, etc., a large amount of heat is required. Instead of burning fossil fuels, solar energy can be converted to heat factory processes.
22. Solar Oven
Solar oven is a kind of solar stove, which is based on the principle that the solar collector box will be converted into solar heat energy used in things to cook, especially suitable for power outages or camping out when used.
23. Solar Appliances
For some low-power household appliances, the use of solar power can meet its basic operation. For some high-power appliances, the use of solar energy-saving style is also a good choice for saving electricity.
24.Solar Cooler
On hot summer days, it is often difficult to keep the food carried by camping out fresh, and the emergence of solar-powered coolers is undoubtedly a solution to this problem. One of the solar powered cooler is to receive energy from the solar panels, which is used to make cold air to keep food fresh.
25. Portable solar Bluetooth headset
For Bluetooth headset power storage capacity is poor, in recent years a company developed a solar Bluetooth headset. It is worth noting that solar energy is not directly to the bluetooth headset energy supply, but to the bluetooth headset charging bin energy supply.
26. Solar-powered calculator
Computers require very little power to work, and the average computer only needs to replace its batteries once in a few months. And computers with miniature solar cells may never need additional charging.
27. Solar Flashlight
In many industries, such as mining, which rely heavily on flashlights, the average flashlight may not be able to meet the required working hours, and purchasing a higher-end flashlight may cost more. Therefore, solar flashlights with a general range of 45 hours or more can better meet the needs of these industries.
27. Solar Camera
Installing cameras in the family compound or under some open landscape is necessary to ensure safety. The installation of these cameras are generally directly exposed to the sun, as long as each camera is equipped with an independent solar power system, and can even be done without any wires to run.
28. Solar Keyboard
With the accelerated pace of life, the emergence of wireless keyboards to meet the needs of the mobile office, but it can store its own power is limited, the use of miniature solar power system to improve its range, to meet the requirements of the office family.
29. Solar Cell Phone Charger
In the era of Internet of everything, the frequency of use of such digital products as cell phones will greatly increase, which makes most digital products will appear in the state of insufficient power. Although it is possible to use a portable charger, the things you need to carry and the weight will increase. Simply by integrating a solar cell into your cell phone battery, you can charge your cell phone with a small solar panel.
30. Solar Parasol
Solar umbrellas in daytime use and ordinary umbrellas are no different, but installed on the top of the solar cell was able to give the umbrella built-in battery charging, to meet the night umbrella base on the LED lights on the power supply.
31. Solar Garbage Can Wi-Fi
The solar cells on these solar garbage cans are able to generate energy to connect to WiFi, making it easy for passersby to connect to the internet at any time.
32.Solar Fountain
General fountains use motors inside the pool to provide kinetic energy to the water column, so that it rushes to the sky to form beautiful patterns. These fountain landscapes are generally placed outdoors, which makes it easy to collect solar energy, convert it into electricity and then drive the water column to move upwards.
33. Solar Bird Feeder
Solar bird feeders are essentially solar lamps with bird feeders. In the daytime absorption of solar energy conversion, night can not only be used as lighting, but also to facilitate the birds to find feeding mouth, for the love of nature and small animals is a good garden decoration lamps.
34.Solar Underwater Pool Lights
These lights, installed underwater in the pool, can absorb solar energy during the day and store the power in the battery. Once night falls, the underwater pool lights will come on for night swimming.
35. Solar-powered mountaineering equipment
Mountaineering enthusiasts often choose steep, deserted places for mountaineering. In these extreme sports, relying on the positioning and data provided by the instrument is very important. The use of solar energy for these mountaineering equipment function, not only can reduce the number of batteries mountaineers need to carry, but also to ensure personal safety.
36. Solar Watch
Compared with smartphones, watches are equipped with chargers of various types, it is more difficult to find a suitable charger when the power is insufficient, and solar battery watches can utilize solar power, which solves the problem of difficult charging.
37. Solar Earbuds
Similar to solar-powered Bluetooth headphones, solar earbuds are directly powered by the charging case of the earbuds, and these smart earbuds are capable of providing strong noise-canceling features.
38. Solar Bicycle Helmet
Thanks to the high adaptability of outdoor sports and the solar industry, solar-powered bicycle helmets can bring great convenience to cyclists. For example, the helmet automatically fits the head shape and can be connected to the bone conduction headset for its power supply.
39. Solar Headset
Solar headset with music, talk, noise reduction and other functions, the use of solar energy supply, to realize the wireless call energy.
40.Solar Textiles
Solar textiles are based on the research and development of e-textiles, and some scientists predict that the use of solar energy to realize the development of e-textiles may change the way people live in the future.
41. Solar Transportation
With the current power generation efficiency of solar panels, can only provide small electric mobility scooters and other transportation, but with the continuous development of the solar energy industry, the future realization of solar-powered cars, solar-powered trains and other means of transportation is just around the corner.
42. Solar Electric Vehicle Charger
With the continuous development of the clean energy industry, electric vehicles have gradually come into the public’s view. However, due to the popularity is still not high, the charging problem of electric cars is still mainly rely on car owners to buy their own chargers to solve. These solar electric car chargers can save the cost of car charging.
43. Solar Carport
These solar carports are specially designed for electric cars. The presence of multiple solar panels on the roof of the carport facilitates the installation of solar panels to collect solar energy and power the electric car. At the same time, the carport structure protects your car from the weather during the charging process.
44. Solar Mobile Homes
Smaller homes with fewer appliances are better suited for solar power. By analogy, some small mobile homes may need to be off the grid, so choosing solar power is a good option.
45. Solar Parking
With car ownership increasing year by year, in order to reduce the pressure of parking, most of the parking lots nowadays use three-dimensional structures to provide more parking spaces. Solar parking lots are covered with solar panels above the three-dimensional structure. The electricity produced will be used to power these three-dimensional parking lots.
46. Solar Bus Station
Solar bus stops install solar panels on the roof of bus shelters to supply power to billboards and some of the station’s LED displays, making it easy for passengers to determine the location of vehicles in real time while waiting for the bus.
47.Solar Street Lights
As street lights are usually turned on at night, during the daytime, solar street lights are able to collect and convert solar energy through solar panels and store the electricity in separate solar cells for nighttime lighting.
48.Solar Park Bench
Utilizing solar panels to generate electricity to supply lamps and charging outlets installed on the bench, providing people with a place to rest and charge.
49.Solar Drinking Water
The principle of solar drinking water is to use solar energy to liquefy water vapor in clean air into drinking water. Although the popularity rate is not high at present, the development of solar drinking water may get better and better in today’s pollution increasing day by day.
50. Solar Tent
Ordinary camping tents can only meet the basic needs of rest, but the installation of solar panels can be installed inside the tent with energized charging facilities. Thus, charging and heating can be realized inside the tent.
51.Solar Movie Theater
Movie theaters consume a large amount of energy because they need to play movies on a large screen in a loop without interruption. The use of solar power to supply electricity to them may need to reduce the size of the theater, but in the context of saving the entire cost of electricity, it is still worth it.
52. Solar-powered Internet Cafes
For places like internet cafes, which require a lot of electricity, using solar power to power them can save a lot of money.
53. Spherical Solar Generator
Spherical generators are different from traditional solar generators in that they have a huge glass sphere that can gather sunlight and moonlight together, and the light intensity can reach thousands or even tens of thousands of times that of ordinary solar energy collection devices.
Because of this characteristic, the spherical solar generator can utilize the glass sphere to gather light for energy conversion and power generation in any weather.
