From the World of Percy Jackson: The Sun and the Star (The Nico Di Angelo Adventures)

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Solar power can also be collected and distributed without machinery or electronics. For example, roofs can be covered with vegetation or painted white to decrease the amount of heat absorbed into the building, thereby decreasing the amount of electricity needed for air conditioning. This is solar architecture. I hope this book haven't ruined my feelings for The House of Hades in my next re-read. & now I don't know if I want to jump into one of Heroes of Olympus books to wash it all away, or just wait until I forget this one! both!

Rich and strange (and kitted out with an eye-catching cover), but stronger in the set pieces than the internal logic. Will and Nico's dynamic was really interesting to finally see develop - communication and understanding their true self was so very true and important in this story, and I loved how that no matter how many times the nightmares threatened to plunge them into an eternal darkness, they would always find a way into the light through the help of each other. 🌟🌞 There was a perfect balance of trust and humor in their banter - a subtle tease of flirting and dear affection - and such an earnest and emotional connection of affection shown between the two of them. ' so will first kissed nico after the burning maze, when jason died. but they started dating somewhere before the hidden oracle. that's okay ig?? but like nico and will's reaction after their kiss gave them major non-dating vibes. idk if that's like a typo or something but that was weird Other parts of the molecular cloud cooled into a disc around the brand-new sun and became planets, asteroids, comets, and other bodies in our solar system. Photovoltaics use the sun’s energy to speed up electrons in solar cells and generate electricity. This form of technology has been used widely, and can provide electricity for rural areas, large power stations, buildings, and smaller devices such as parking meters and trash compactors.

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The sun’s energy travels to Earth at the speed of light in the form of electromagnetic radiation (EMR).

A sunspot is just what it sounds like—a dark spot on the sun. A sunspot forms when intense magnetic activity in the convective zone ruptures a thermal column. At the top of the ruptured column (visible in the photosphere), temperature is temporarily decreased because hot gases are not reaching it. The frequency of a wave represents how many times the wave repeats itself in a certain unit of time. Waves with very short wavelengths repeat themselves several times in a given unit of time, so they are high-frequency. In contrast, low-frequency waves have much longer wavelengths. Sunspots, solar flares, and solar prominences take form in the photosphere, although they are the result of processes and disruptions in other layers of the sun.

The process of nuclear fusion, which creates the heat and light that make life on our planet possible, is also the process that slowly changes the sun’s composition. Through nuclear fusion, the sun is constantly using up the hydrogen in its core: Every second, the sun fuses around 620 million metric tons of hydrogen into helium. Finally, for your amusement, I present some of my recent discoveries as a novice to the film industry: