Solar Collector

Solar collector may refer to:

  • Solar thermal collector, a solar collector that collects heat by absorbing sunlight
  • Solar panel (also known as "photovoltaic module"), an assembly of solar cells that converts sunlight directly into electricity
  • Solar Collector (sculpture), an interactive light art installation in Cambridge, Ontario, Canada

Famous quotes containing the words solar and/or collector:

    The solar system has no anxiety about its reputation, and the credit of truth and honesty is as safe; nor have I any fear that a skeptical bias can be given by leaning hard on the sides of fate, of practical power, or of trade, which the doctrine of Faith cannot down-weigh.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    Though collecting quotations could be considered as merely an ironic mimetism—victimless collecting, as it were ... in a world that is well on its way to becoming one vast quarry, the collector becomes someone engaged in a pious work of salvage. The course of modern history having already sapped the traditions and shattered the living wholes in which precious objects once found their place, the collector may now in good conscience go about excavating the choicer, more emblematic fragments.
    Susan Sontag (b. 1933)