Technology, Society, and Culture
Presentation:
Solar Panels
Philip Ingham
Week 8 LAS 423
02/24/22
Ethical Values
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• Trust •
Dependable
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Overview
Strengths
• Environment friendly
Weaknesses
• cost
Opportunities
• Jobs
Threats (Jackson, P. (2021, November 22).
• Pollution
History
• Started in the 7th century by the Greeks and Romans
• 1839 photovoltaic effects
• Edmond Becquerel
• 1873 Willoughby Smith
• Selenium functions as a photoconductor
• Willian Grylls Adam and Richard Evans Day
• Photovoltaic principle to selenium
• Charles Fritz
• Created first working selenium solar cell
• 1954 at the Bell’s lab
• Solar cell using silicon (Silvi, C. (2008)
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Reflection • Environment friendly • Pollution • Costly • Tax breaks This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY-NC
Assessment • Force labor • China • Pollution • Reuse or recycle (Atwell, C. (2019, April 4) This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY-NC
Key Points in code of
• Integrity • Discriminant and Harassment • Health and Safety • Recording Keeping
ethics
• Reduce greenhouse gases • Reuse or Recycle • Safety • To homes • Cost • Tax credit
Key recommendation
• Should
• Help the environment • Need to
accountable
conclusion
buy
hold companies
• Atwell, C. (2019, April 4). Top negative impacts solar panels have on environment. EETimes.
Retrieved February 6, 2022, from https://www.eetimes.com/top-negativeimpacts-solar-panels-have-on-environment/#
• Jackson, P. (2021, November 22). What are the dangers of solar panels? Qorax Energy. Retrieved January 30, 2022, from https://qoraxenergy.com/what-are-thedangers-of-solar-panels/
• Silvi, C. (2008). History and future of renewable solar energy. Development, 51(3), 409-414. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/dev.2008.45
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