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Topic: Help! You scientific types.
wux's photo
Thu 11/12/09 06:45 PM
What's the biggest difference between a solar panel and a solar planet? I don't need to tell me what they are, but I ask you to please tell me what the BIGGEST difference between these two types of things are.

causality's photo
Thu 11/12/09 06:48 PM

What's the biggest difference between a solar panel and a solar planet? I don't need to tell me what they are, but I ask you to please tell me what the BIGGEST difference between these two types of things are.


the biggest difference is in size and/or mass.

wux's photo
Thu 11/12/09 06:52 PM


What's the biggest difference between a solar panel and a solar planet? I don't need to tell me what they are, but I ask you to please tell me what the BIGGEST difference between these two types of things are.


the biggest difference is in size and/or mass.


Yes. If we consider man-made solar panels. At the present. But there could be or could have been made in the past or in the future very big solar panels. There is a biggest difference betweent the two types of things that is bigger than size differences. This is not a test; I don't know the answer. So anyone's guess could be the right one.

Abracadabra's photo
Thu 11/12/09 06:55 PM
A solar panel is a body of people who decide which solar bodies will be planets.

A solar planet is a body that continues to revolve around the sun in spite of the decisions made by solar panels.

So I guess the biggest difference is that solar panels make decisions whilst solar planets just do their thing without making any descisions. :wink:

SkyHook5652's photo
Thu 11/12/09 07:14 PM
What's the biggest difference between a solar panel and a solar planet? I don't need to tell me what they are, but I ask you to please tell me what the BIGGEST difference between these two types of things are.
the biggest difference is in size and/or mass.
Yes. If we consider man-made solar panels. At the present. But there could be or could have been made in the past or in the future very big solar panels. There is a biggest difference betweent the two types of things that is bigger than size differences. This is not a test; I don't know the answer. So anyone's guess could be the right one.
A solar panel only converts light into eletricity.

A solar planet converts light and heat into other things through different processes - photosynthesis and evaporation to name a couple obvious ones.

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Thu 11/12/09 07:30 PM
Edited by Jeanniebean on Thu 11/12/09 07:31 PM
>>>>What's the biggest difference between a solar panel and a solar planet?

Answer: T


(panel -- PlaneT)


move the l and ad a T bigsmile :banana:

wux's photo
Thu 11/12/09 08:17 PM
I absolutely LOVE all these answers from yous guys and gays and gals and grrls and geezers and goys and...well, the entire lovable lot of you. Each and every one of you, collectively and idividually.

no photo
Thu 11/12/09 09:03 PM
bigsmile

jrbogie's photo
Fri 11/13/09 01:04 AM
aw crap, bean beat me to it. i saw the "t" from the get go. dang.

LaMuerte's photo
Fri 11/13/09 08:16 AM
The planet is round.

There, now I'll not put anymore effort into this.

Quietman_2009's photo
Fri 11/13/09 08:18 AM
Edited by Quietman_2009 on Fri 11/13/09 08:18 AM

>>>>What's the biggest difference between a solar panel and a solar planet?

Answer: T


(panel -- PlaneT)


move the l and ad a T bigsmile :banana:


that was my choice

maybe a solar planet IS a solar panel. just really big


ALL energy on this planet is solar (except geothermal)

no photo
Fri 11/13/09 08:21 AM

The planet is round.

There, now I'll not put anymore effort into this.


Good choice. laugh laugh

SkyHook5652's photo
Fri 11/13/09 09:41 AM
Edited by SkyHook5652 on Fri 11/13/09 09:45 AM
>>>>What's the biggest difference between a solar panel and a solar planet?

Answer: T


(panel -- PlaneT)


move the l and ad a T bigsmile :banana:
that was my choice

maybe a solar planet IS a solar panel. just really big


ALL energy on this planet is solar (except geothermal)
(And Nuclear - and we won't mention background radiation from the Big bang, or energy from meteorites entering the atmoshere, or any kind of EM (e.g. light) or gravitational force from extra-solar sources, or...)

Just messing. :wink:

tngxl65's photo
Fri 11/13/09 09:48 AM
I believe Solar Planet is a tanning salon. Perhaps it's powered buy a solar panel?

Ruth34611's photo
Fri 11/13/09 10:02 AM
One is a panel and the other is a planet. :tongue:

Sorry. I guess I'm too general for the Science and Philosophy forum and too philosophical for the General forum. ohwell

<----going back into her cave.

SkyHook5652's photo
Fri 11/13/09 10:33 AM
Edited by SkyHook5652 on Fri 11/13/09 10:37 AM
One is a panel and the other is a planet. :tongue:

Sorry. I guess I'm too general for the Science and Philosophy forum and too philosophical for the General forum. ohwell

<----going back into her cave.
Knock, knock. Come out. come out, wherever you are. ("...and meet the young dear who fell from a star" - sung by Glenda, The Good Witch of the North, in The Wizard of Oz.)

Personally, I think the Sci&Phi forum needs ganerality once in a while, just as the General forum needs some Sci&Phi every once in a while.

So please come back out. An hang that cute "Witchy Woman" pic back up while you're at it. love

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Sat 11/14/09 07:08 AM

Quietman_2009's photo
Sat 11/14/09 08:33 AM
Edited by Quietman_2009 on Sat 11/14/09 08:33 AM

>>>>What's the biggest difference between a solar panel and a solar planet?

Answer: T


(panel -- PlaneT)


move the l and ad a T bigsmile :banana:
that was my choice

maybe a solar planet IS a solar panel. just really big


ALL energy on this planet is solar (except geothermal)
(And Nuclear - and we won't mention background radiation from the Big bang, or energy from meteorites entering the atmoshere, or any kind of EM (e.g. light) or gravitational force from extra-solar sources, or...)

Just messing. :wink:


oh yeah I completely forgot nuclear

I was just thinking of how people don't really realize, petroleum IS a form of solar energy stored millions of years ago

and wind is driven by solar energy and even biofuel is liberating the energy stored from the sun

solar panels are quickly becoming cost effective. not quite yet but soon.

anyway I was just messin too bigsmile

Dan99's photo
Sat 11/14/09 09:49 AM
One could be built by a midget, the other could create the midget.

SkyHook5652's photo
Sat 11/14/09 12:34 PM
>>>>What's the biggest difference between a solar panel and a solar planet?

Answer: T


(panel -- PlaneT)


move the l and ad a T bigsmile :banana:
that was my choice

maybe a solar planet IS a solar panel. just really big


ALL energy on this planet is solar (except geothermal)
(And Nuclear - and we won't mention background radiation from the Big bang, or energy from meteorites entering the atmoshere, or any kind of EM (e.g. light) or gravitational force from extra-solar sources, or...)

Just messing. :wink:
oh yeah I completely forgot nuclear

I was just thinking of how people don't really realize, petroleum IS a form of solar energy stored millions of years ago

and wind is driven by solar energy and even biofuel is liberating the energy stored from the sun

solar panels are quickly becoming cost effective. not quite yet but soon.

anyway I was just messin too bigsmile
:thumbsup: drinker

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