How solar panels actually work?
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There are several kinds of solar panel now. Here’s how a traditional one works.
A photon hits an atom of a special material. The atom is energized. Energized mater is unstable and sheds energy to become stable again. This means the atom poops out an electron. Physics doesn’t like free floating electrons existing, and yeets that electron towards a second special material layered behind the first one. Since that material has the opposite charge of an electron, the panel pushes the electron towards the second material by the most convenient route possible, which just so happens to make the electron flow along some wires. This happens a button of times a second if light keeps hitting the panel, which makes a electrical current.
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