How can sunlight turn into electricity?
Chemistry For Your Life
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The Sun Hits Our Planet, Right?
In a solar cell, or like a plant, that is able to have, in a solar cell situation, it has some element, some molecules. So a molecule, a molecule that, when the sun hits it, amte and the rays and the energy from the sun are hitting it, it excites the electrons in that molecule. And then from there, that energy is becomes electricity, and lwilling stored in some battery or capacity, whatever. Or in a plant, iis as food for the plant. They use thot energy to make sugars or carbohydrates or whatever. But that's a really great explanation o understanding.
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