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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?