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How Solar Power Can Change The World?

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  -By Joy Batra Can solar power run my entire house? Is the solar-powered system really valuable? Why is solar power the best source of energy? What are the benefits of solar energy? And most importantly, is it affordable? Well! if you have all these questions in your mind, you’re at the right place. Let’s find out the answers to all these questions in this article. But at first, starting with what is solar power? What is Solar Power? Basically, solar power is the conversion of energy from sunlight into electricity. Either directly using photovoltaic (PV), indirectly using concentrated solar energy or a combination of both. PV cells convert light into electricity using the photovoltaic effect. The Pavagada Solar Park, Karnataka, India, is currently the largest photovoltaic power plant in the world with an output of 2050 MW. Solar energy was first used nearly in the 17th century. Processes that were once expensive and inconvenient are now easier to manage and more accessible tha

Generations of Windows Operating System

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-By Joy Batra It all started in 1983 at a hotel in New York. Two Microsoft founders, Paul Allen and Bill Gates, officially announced the first and next-generation operating system for their corporation –  Microsoft Windows . Despite the criticism of stability and constant comparisons with the Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Windows is still the most widely used operating system in the world. In this article, we’ll take you to a long but inspirational tour of Windows Operating System and its various generations or versions till now. So let’s get started. Overview Bill Gates and Paul Allen formally founded Microsoft in April 1975. In 1983 Allen was infected with a disease and resigned from Microsoft, but kept himself as a member of Microsoft. Prior to his resignation, Allen and Gates invented MS-DOS(MS Disk Operating System) and sold it to the IBM as an operating system. This is Microsoft’s first operating system before Windows Series. It starts from Windows 1 in 1985 to Windows 10 pr