Price is Right
Engineering Majors
Solar Power Applications/ Key Terms
Solar Challenges
Solar Myths/Facts
100

The average price of the Lightyear 0, the first solar-powered production car/  

What is 210-310 thousand dollars

100

The type of engineer that focuses on the designing the systems that converts solar energy into the power grid. 


What is Electrical Engineer?

100

Name 1 way solar power energy is used in your daily life.

What is powering homes, powering commercial buildings; etc.?

100

Name 1 reason why solar energy's economic value is a major engineering grand challenge

What is tariffs, supply chain issues and high initial cost?
100

Solar energy only works in the daytime.


True or False

What is False?

While solar energy can't gain energy at night time, but solar powered cells have batteries that can power your home at night.

200

The average cost of a individual solar panel .

What is 195-275 dollars

200

The engineer that focuses on building and creating environmentally-friendly solar farms. 

What is a civil engineer?

200

The difference between passive and active solar energy.

What is passive solar energy uses building design elements to capture solar energy and active solar energy uses mechanical products to capture solar energy

200

A key reason why Solar Energy only accounts for roughly for 7 percent of the electricity generation across the world.

What is solar panels can lose their electrical efficency due to increased heat exposure?
200

Solar Energy is more cost effective than other renewable energy types. 

What is True? 

Solar energy is less expensive than fossil fuel energy and most other renewable energy sources. 

300

The average cost of a Photovoltaic battery, the main way to store excess solar energy 


What is 11000-17000 dollars?

300

The engineer that develops system plans and CAD models for solar energy power farms and other industrial facilities working with solar energy

What is Systems/ Industrial Engineer?

300

Name 1 type of solar energy systems?

What is Photovoltaic, Solar Heating and Cooling or Concentrating Solar Power?

300

The maximum efficiency of solar energy panels 


What is 28-34 percent?
300

Solar Energy is completely safe without any environmental impacts. 

What is False? 

Solar energy does struggle with creating hazardous materials along with having to use significant amounts of land. 

400

The average cost of a solar powered generator for an RV 



What is 2300-2700 dollars?

400
The engineer that focuses on the site layout, land acquisition and compliance of solar farm building operations. 

What is Construction Management engineer?

400

The key unit of energy when measuring solar energy.

What is Kilowatt-Hours (kwh)?

400
A new field focuses on making more cost-efficient solar cells through using nanowires and quantum dots to improve solar energy. 

What is nanotechnology?

400

Name 2 of the 5 leading solar energy producing states in the United States. 

Extra 100 points if you can name all 5

What is Florida, North Carolina, Nevada, Texas, California?

500

The average cost of a mini solar powered car 


What is 8-10 dollars?

500

Which engineer focuses on the unique electrical and safety risks posed by solar energy systems.

What is Fire and Safety Engineer?

500

Name 1 Industrial Process that uses solar energy.

What is pasteurization, textile and leather making, water desalination and chemical processing?

500

The new cell material being created that has helped improve the efficiency of solar panels.

What is perovskite?

500

The worlds largest solar farm is located in this African nation? 

What is Morocco?

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