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Detailed explanation-1: -Tourouvre, France: France on Thursday inaugurated the world’s first “solar highway", a road paved with solar panels providing enough energy to power the street lights of the small Normandy town of Tourouvre.
Detailed explanation-2: -Dubbed by ARS Technica as the “World’s first solar road, ” France took the plunge in 2014.
Detailed explanation-3: -The first solar panel was invented by Charles Fritts in 1883 where he coated a thin layer of selenium with an extremely thin layer of gold. The resulting cells had a conversion electrical efficiency of only about 1%.
Detailed explanation-4: -It all began with Edmond Becquerel, a young physicist working in France, who in 1839 observed and discovered the photovoltaic effect-a process that produces a voltage or electric current when exposed to light or radiant energy.
Detailed explanation-5: -However, it was not until 1883 that New York inventor Charles Fritts (1850-1903) managed to produce the photovoltaic effect with a device that became the origin of today’s solar panels.