PV Gap

Nicholas Said:

Who and when was solar energy invented???

We Answered:

That's funny question, to start, solar energy as always been there, no one invented it, (energy can not be created or destroyed, only changed from one form-state to another)

Sherry Said:

Solar energy question?????????? Plz answer?

We Answered:

Edmund Becquerel in 1838 was the first to publish findings of "photovoltaic"

In 1873 Willoughby Smith while experimenting with underwater telegraph cables observed the light sensitivity of the element selenium.

In 1883, Charles Fritz produced the first practical solar cell.

http://www.facts-about-solar-energy.com/solar-energy-history.html

Hope this helps. :)

Michael Said:

Who Invented Solar Energy?

We Answered:

It was first recorded to be used in around 400 BC by Archimedes in the middle east during a naval war

The Greeks and Romans used solar energy to heat their bath houses, to heat their homes, they had green houses to grow food year round, and they heated glass jars and stored the heat to use for heat later in the night.

In 1839, French physicist Alexandre-Edmond Becquerel first observed the "photovoltaic effect"--how solar energy could be used to trigger a chemical reaction, generating electricity.

The first person to develop a solar cell was Charles Fritts in the year 1883.

The photovoltaic effect was further defined by Albert Einstein in 1905.

In 1941, the American Russell Ohl invented a silicon solar cell.

In 1954, scientists at Bell Laboratories depended on the Czochralski process to develop the first crystalline silicon photovoltaic cell, which had an efficiency of 4%.

Victoria Said:

Who invented solar energy??

We Answered:

A complicated matter:

The first use of solar energy(recorded): Archimedes
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archimedes#…

To produce solar energy we must understand the photoelectric effect: no less than Einstein was involved.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photoelectr…

Also see:
http://web.mit.edu/invent/iow/ovshinsky.…