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Solar means appertaining to the super star, or Sol, our planet's star. Solar also has other meanings.

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Active solar
Active solar

Active solar technologies are employed to convert solar energy into usable light, heat, cause air-movement for ventilation or cooling, or store heat for future use....
Passive solar
Passive solar

Passive solar technologies are means of using solar energy for useful energy without use of active mechanical systems . Such technologies convert sunlight into usable heat , cause air-movement for ventilating, or future use, with little use of other energy sources....

Passive solar building design
Passive solar building design

Passive solar buildings aim to maintain interior thermal comfort throughout the sun's daily and annual cycles whilst reducing the requirement for HVAC....

Solar cell
Solar cell

A solar cell or photovoltaic cell is a device that converts sunlight directly into electricity by the photovoltaic effect. Sometimes the term solar cell is reserved for devices intended specifically to capture energy from sunlight, while the term photovoltaic cell is used when the source is unspecified....
, a device that directly creates electricity from solar energy
Solar collector
Solar collector

A solar collector is a device for extracting the energy of the sun directly into a more usable or storable form. The energy in sunlight is in the form of electromagnetic radiation from the infrared to the ultraviolet wavelengths....
Solar cooker
Solar cooker

A solar oven or solar cooker is a device which uses sunlight as its energy source. Because they use no fuel and they cost nothing to run, humanitarian organizations are promoting their use worldwide to help slow deforestation and desertification, caused by using wood as fuel for cooking....
Solar energy, energy from the sun
Solar forge
Solar forge

A solar forge is a device that uses the power of the sun to melt materials, such as asphalt. A large Fresnel lens, usually rectangular and several feet long on each side, is positioned as a lid of a hollow standing cylinder ....
Solar hot water
Solar hot water

Solar hot water is water heated by the use of solar energy.Solar heating systems are generally composed of solar Solar thermal energy collectors, a fluid system to move the heat from the collector to its point of usage....
, hot water produced using solar energy
Solar One
Solar One

The Solar Projects Solar One, Solar Two and Solar Tres are power plants based on solar thermal energy in the Mojave Desert, USA and Spain....
, several solar energy projects
Solar water disinfection
Solar water disinfection

Solar water disinfection, also known as SODIS is a method of disinfection water using only sunlight and plastic polyethylene terephthalate bottles....

Solar-powered transport

Solar boat
Solar boat

Solar boat may refer to:*Solar deity: Sun God, solar chariot or solar barge*Electric_boat#Types: Boat powered by direct solar energy...
, a boat propelled by direct solar energy
Solar engine
Solar engine

A solar engine can be:* a Crookes radiometer : A light mill composed of an airtight glass bulb containing a partial vacuum. Inside are a set of vanes which are mounted on a spindle....
Solar sail
Solar sail

Solar sails are a proposed form of spacecraft propulsion using large membrane mirrors. Radiation pressure is about 10-5 pascal at Earth's distance from the Sun and decreases by the square of the distance from the light source , but unlike rockets, solar sails require no reaction mass....
, a device to move through outer space using light pressure
Solar vehicle, the general article

Related to astronomy

Solar calendar
Solar calendar

A solar calendar is a calendar whose dates indicate the position of the earth on its revolution around the sun ....
, calendars based on the solar year
Solar cycle
Solar cycle

The solar cycle, or the solar magnetic activity cycle, is the main source of periodic solar variation driving variations in space weather....
, the Sun's 11 year sunspot cycle
Solar cycle (calendar)
Solar cycle (calendar)

The solar cycle is a 28-year cycle of the Julian calendar with respect to the week. It occurs because leap years occur every 4 years and there are 7 possible days to start a leap year, making a 28 year sequence....
, the 28 year cycle of the Julian calendar
Solar eclipse
Solar eclipse

A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between the Sun and the Earth so that the Sun is wholly or partially obscured. This can only happen during a new moon, when the Sun and Moon are in conjunction as seen from the Earth....
Solar flare
Solar flare

A solar flare is a violent explosion in a star's atmosphere releasing as much energy as 6 × 1025 Joules. Solar flares affect all layers of the solar atmosphere , heating Plasma to tens of million Kelvin and accelerating electrons, protons and heavier ions to near the speed of light....
, eruptions from the surface of the Sun
Solar glare
Solar glare

Solar glare is a visual phenomenon caused by strong sunlight Reflection off a glass or other reflective surface causing an exaggerated lighting effect....
Solar Maximum Mission
Solar Maximum Mission

The Solar Maximum Mission satellite was designed to investigate solar phenomenon, particularly solar flares. It was launched on February 14, 1980....
, a space probe studying our Sun
Solar Monitoring Observatory
Solar Monitoring Observatory

The Solar Monitoring Observatory is an European Space Agency science observatory that is part of the Columbus , which is a component of the International Space Station....
(SOLAR), a planned space science observatory for the International Space Station
International Space Station

The International Space Station is a research facility Assembly of the International Space Station in outer space. On-orbit construction of the station began in 1998, and is scheduled to be complete by 2011, with operations continuing until around 2015....
Solar physics
Solar physics

Solar physics is the study of our Sun. It is a branch of astrophysics that specializes in exploiting and explaining the detailed measurements that are possible only for our closest star....
Solar system
Solar System

The Solar System consists of the Sun and those Astronomical object bound to it by gravity: the eight planets and five dwarf planets, their 173 known Natural satellite, and billions of Small Solar System body....
, our Sun and its planets
Solar tower
Solar tower

A solar tower is a structure used to support equipment for studying the sun, and is typically part of Solar telescope designs.Solar towers are used to raise the observation equipment above the atmospheric disturbances caused by solar heating of the ground and the radiation of the heat into the atmosphere....
Solar wind
Solar wind

The solar wind is a Electric current—a Plasma —ejected from the stellar atmosphere of the sun. It consists mostly of electrons and protons with energies of about 1 electron volt....
Solar year
Tropical year

A tropical year is the length of time that the Sun takes to return to the same position in the cycle of seasons, as seen from Earth; for example, the time from vernal equinox to vernal equinox, or from summer solstice to summer solstice....

Other

Solar plexus, a nerve bundle
Solar Pyramid
Solar Pyramid

The Solar Pyramid was set to be a giant sundial and potentially the UK's largest sculpture. It was also intended to become the UK?s largest artwork, the world?s biggest functioning timepiece, and the world's largest sundial....
, a sculpture
SOLAR Records
SOLAR Records

S.O.L.A.R. Records was an United States record label founded in 1977 by Dick Griffey, reconstituted out of Soul Train Records only two years after it was founded with Soul Train television show host and creator Don Cornelius....
, an US
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
record label
Record label

In the music industry, a record label can be a brand and a trademark associated with the marketing of recorded sound and music videos. Most commonly, a record label is the company that manages such brands and trademarks, coordinates the Record producer, manufacturing, distribution , marketing and promotion, and enforcement of copyright protec...
Solar Wind (comic)
Solar Wind (comic)

Solar Wind is a United Kingdom small press comicbook. Edited by Cosmic Ray , the comic is devoted to gentle parodies of British boys' comics of the 1970s and 80s....
, a British comic
Solar Winds
Solar Winds

Solar Winds I & II were top down, space-based action games released in the early-1990s.In Solar Winds, you are Jake Stone, a bounty hunter who - through several missions - uncovers a secret coalition between the government of your home solar system and a race of unidentified aliens....
, a computer game
Solar (comics)
Solar (comics)

Solar is an American fictional comic book character. Originally known as Doctor Solar, Man of the Atom, he first appeared in a comic book published by Gold Key Comics in the 1960s....
, the comic book character
"Solar" (composition)
Solar (composition)

"Solar" is a musical composition attributed to Miles Davis on the studio album Tune Up, considered a modern jazz standard. A controversy exists over authorship of this composition and one current consensus holds that Davis' "Solar" is essentially an earlier song, "Sonny" , written by Chuck Wayne....
, a jazz composition attributed to Miles Davis
Miles Davis

Miles Dewey Davis III was an United States jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer.Widely considered one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century, Davis was at the forefront of almost every major development in jazz from World War II to the 1990s: he played on various early bebop records and recorded one of the first cool jaz...
Solar (room)
Solar (room)

The solar was a room in many England and French medieval manor house, great houses and castles. In such houses, the main room was known as the Great hall, in which all parts of the household would eat and live, with those of highest status being at the end, often on a raised dais, and those of lesser status further down the hall....
, the room used in medieval times for solitary activity
USS Solar, a World War II ship named in honor of BM1 Adolfo Solar
Xul Solar
Xul Solar

Xul Solar was the adopted name of Oscar Agust?n Alejandro Schulz Solari , Argentina Painting, sculpture, writer, and inventor of Constructed languages....
, the adopted name of Oscar Agustín Alejandro Schulz Solari
Solar, County Antrim, a townland
Townland

Believed to be of Gaelic origin, a townland is a term for a small geographical unit of land used in Ireland; the term was at one time also used in Scotland....
in County Antrim
County Antrim

County Antrim is one of six Counties of Northern Ireland that form Northern Ireland, and one of nine counties that historically and geographically constitute the Province of Ulster....
, Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland

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