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Check out a one-minute animated video that shows how a solar cell converts sunlight into electricity.

(Note: early in the video, you'll hear the statement, "Every minute, enough of this [sunlight] energy reaches the Earth to meet the world's energy demand for a whole year." This statement is misleading if specific assumptions are not considered. A more accurate general statement is that "every hour enough of this energy...".)

We have provided the animation in Quicktime and MPEG multimedia formats.

QuickTime format:

(free QuickTime plug-in)

MPEG format:

Text version (TXT 1 KB)