Fun Facts

It takes about eight minutes for energy to travel from the sun to the earth.
Photovoltaic cells made from the silicon in one ton of sand can produce as much electricity as burning 500,000 tons of coal in a power plant.

Household solar systems used to be too expensive for all but the wealthiest households, but prices are at least 200% cheaper than they were 30 years ago. At the same time, solar technology has become more efficient and reliable.
The worlds largest solar energy plant (at the time of this writing) is actually in Canada, at 80 MW.
While the US has 3,900% more sun than Germany, the smaller European country has 6,000% more solar.