http://www.solarzine.com Solar Energy Directory and Online Resource Sun, 28 Sep 2008 22:30:48 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Solar has always been the most glamorous of the renewable energy sources - it's HOT. In the past, energy sources such as solar-thermal, solar-electric (AKA: photovoltaic or PV for short), wind, geoexchange, geothermal, small hydro, and so on, have been referred to as "alternative energy". Today, given the price of a barrel of oil, ... http://www.solarzine.com/post-1/ Solar electric energy is referred to as 'photovoltaic', or PV for short. You'll recognize it as the space-age-looking arrays of silicon wafers, like what NASA uses for space excursions. http://www.solarzine.com/post-2/