solar collector

American  

noun

1. any of numerous devices or systems designed to capture and use solar radiation for heating air or water and for producing steam to generate electricity.

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Example Sentences

She tells us the south-facing atrium acts as a solar collector with its large, glass windows.

From BBC • Oct. 19, 2022

They are also cheap, consisting essentially of a sheltered, shallow body of salt water that acts as a solar collector, plus a heat-exchanging system and turbogenerator.

From Time Magazine Archive

First Texas Instruments and Southern California Edison developed a silicon solar collector they claim will halve the cost of squeezing juice from the sun.

From Time Magazine Archive

"I've done the very best I can do," he says, mindful of the farmhouse's new wood-burning stove and, in the front yard not far from a flapping American flag, a solar collector.

From Time Magazine Archive

Tina led a team of high-school students who spread out a solar collector the size and consistency of a parachute.

From Super Man and the Bug Out by Doctorow, Cory