Solar technologies are broadly characterized as either passive or active depending on the way they capture, convert and distribute sunlight and enable solar energy to be harnessed at different levels around the world, mostly depending on distance from the equator. Although solar energy refers primarily to the use of solar radiation for practical ends, all renewable energies, other than geothermal and tidal, derive their energy from the Sun in a direct or indirect way. COUNT 5
QSN1 Where do the majority of renewable energies derive their energy from? ANS1 the Sun QSN2 How are solar technologies defined? ANS2 passive or active QSN3 What is one way that characterizes solar technologies as passive or active? ANS3 depending on the way they capture, convert and distribute sunlight QSN4 Which renewable energies do not acquire their energy from the sun? ANS4 geothermal and tidal QSN5 How do renewable energies acquire energy from the sun? ANS5 direct or indirect