Solar power: some of the lesser known bits

The various types of solar power are covered very well elsewhere, including Wikipedia so there is no point in me trying to do the job again on this site.

This page aims to give a few of the aspects of solar power that are out of the ordinary.

Wildlife

A site called 'The Cool Down' has an article on how solar PV installations have become a haven for wildlife, including particularly, native bees. (The article contains many references to other sites, and probably even more advertisements.)

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Hot and cold water and Rankine cycle generation

An interesting article on the Raygen site details their use of solar thermal power to heat water in a large storage and then use the heat flow from that storage to a similar storage of cold water to produce electricity using a Rankine cycle. This has the advantage of being able to produce power at any time of the day or night.