Solar means appertaining to to the Sun, our planet's star. The Sun (Sol is the Star at the center of the Solar System. Solar also has other meanings.
Related to energy
Solar-powered transport
Related to astronomy
Other
- Solar plexus, a nerve bundle
- Solar Pyramid, a sculpture
- SOLAR Records, an US record label
- Solar Wind (comic), a British comic
- Solar Winds, a computer game
- Solar (comics), the comic book character
- "Solar" (composition), a jazz composition attributed to Miles Davis
- Solar (room), the room used in medieval times for solitary activity
- USS Solar, a World War II ship named in honor of BM1 Adolfo Solar
- Xul Solar, the adopted name of Oscar Agustín Alejandro Schulz Solari
Active solar technologies are employed to convert Solar energy into usable heat cause air-movement for ventilation or cooling or store heat for future use For the application of passive solar technologies in buildings see Passive solar building design. Passive solar buildings aim to maintain interior Thermal comfort throughout the sun's daily and annual cycles whilst reducing the requirement for active heating and cooling A solar cell or photovoltaic cell is a device that converts Solar energy into Electricity by the photovoltaic effect. A solar collector is a device for extracting the Energy of the Sun not indirectly into a more usable or storable form A solar oven or solar cooker is a device which uses Sunlight as its energy source Solar energy is the Light and radiant heat from the Sun that powers Earth 's Climate and Weather and sustains Life A solar forge is a device that uses the power of the Sun to melt materials such as Asphalt. Solar hot water is water heated by the use of Solar energy. Solar heating systems are generally composed of solar Thermal collectors a Fluid The Solar Projects Solar One, Solar Two and Solar Tres are power plants based on Solar thermal energy in the Mojave Desert and Spain Solar water disinfection, also known as SODIS is a method of disinfecting water using only Sunlight and plastic PET bottles "Sun god" redirects here For the Ramsey Lewis album see Sun Goddess (album. A Solar Engine (also called solarengine and SE) is a simple BEAM circuit which receives Radiant energy, capacitates and stores the Solar sails (also called light sails or photon sails, especially when they use Light sources other than the Sun) are a proposed form of A solar calendar is a Calendar whose dates indicate the position of the earth on its revolution around the Sun (or equivalently the apparent position of the sun moving The solar cycle, or the solar magnetic activity cycle, is the main source of periodic variation of all solar phenomena driving variations in Space weather. The solar cycle is a 28-year cycle of the Julian calendar with respect to the Week. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between the Sun and the Earth so that the Sun is wholly or partially obscured A solar flare is a violent explosion in a star's (like the Sun 's atmosphere releasing as much Energy as 6 × 1025 Joules Solar flares Solar glare is a Visual phenomenon caused by strong Sunlight reflecting off a Glass or other reflective Surface causing an exaggerated The Solar Maximum Mission Satellite (or SolarMax was designed to investigate solar phenomenon particularly Solar flares. The Solar Monitoring Observatory (SOLAR / SMO is an ESA science observatory that is part of the Columbus Laboratory, which is a component of the International Solar physics is the study of our Sun. Solar Physics is also the name of a journal for solar and solar-stellar research and the study of solar terrestrial The Solar System consists of the Sun and those celestial objects bound to it by Gravity. A solar tower is a structure used to support equipment for studying the sun The solar wind is a Stream of charged particles&mdasha plasma &mdashthat are ejected from the upper atmosphere of the Sun. A tropical year (also known as a solar year) is the length of time that the Sun takes to return to the same position in the cycle of seasons as seen from Earth The celiac plexus (also known as the solar plexus) is a complex network of nerves (a Plexus) located in the abdomen The Solar Pyramid was set to be a giant sundial and potentially the UK's largest Sculpture. SOLAR Records (acronym for Sounds of Los Angeles Records) was an American Record label founded in 1977 by Dick Griffey, a few years after The United States of America —commonly referred to as the In the Music industry, a record label can be a Brand and a Trademark associated with the Marketing of music recordings and Music Solar Wind is a British Small press Comicbook. Edited by Cosmic Ray (a pseudonym for small press comics publisher Paul Scott) the Solar Winds I & II were top down space-based action games released in the early-1990s Solar is an American fictional Comic book character Originally known as Doctor Solar Man of the Atom, he first appeared in a comic book published by Gold "Solar" is a musical composition attributed to Miles Davis on the studio album Tune Up, considered a modern jazz standard Miles Dewey Davis III (May 26 1926 &ndash September 28 1991 was an American Jazz Trumpeter, Bandleader, and Composer. The solar was a room in many English and French Medieval manor houses, Great houses and Castles In such houses the main room was known Xul Solar was the adopted name of Oscar Agustín Alejandro Schulz Solari (born December 14, 1887 – April 9, 1963) Argentine
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