Solar Energy Reporting
Originally published in 1978
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Due to the natural gas shortage in Cleveland, home owners, home builders and civic officials wanted to know just how much solar energy is available in Cleveland. They now get a daily report from Lewis Research Center. Lewis' pyranometer collects sun data for 15 hours daily and measures total solar energy yield. For reporting, information is converted to a specific reading. A media representative calling in gets a voice-synthesized announcement of a two or three digit number, the number corresponding to the kilowatt-hours of solar energy available to a typical 500-square-foot solar collector system.
Full article: http://hdl.handle.net/hdl:2060/20070018920
Abstract
Due to the natural gas shortage in Cleveland, home owners, home builders and civic officials wanted to know just how much solar energy is available in Cleveland. They now get a daily report from Lewis Research Center. Lewis' pyranometer collects sun data for 15 hours daily and measures total solar energy yield. For reporting, information is converted to a specific reading. A media representative calling in gets a voice-synthesized announcement of a two or three digit number, the number corresponding to the kilowatt-hours of solar energy available to a typical 500-square-foot solar collector system.
Solar Energy Reporting
Solar Energy Reporting
