Advantages of solar panels are; energy cost-savings, simple/sustainable design, pollution-free use, long service life, low maintenance, adaptability, and avenue for innovation.
Disadvantages of solar panels are; capital cost, manufacturing-related pollution, weather dependence, efficiency challenges, storage limitations, space constraint and scarcity of raw materials.
Examples of active solar energy systems are; pumped-solar air heating system, concentrated solar plant, solar water heater, fluid-based radiator, hybrid solar cogeneration system.
Examples of passive solar energy are; double-glazing window, daylighting design, passive water heating, insulated architecture, and convective solar space cooling.
Robotics is the description, development and deployment of intelligent machines that are designed to perform tasks traditionally handled by humans. Robotics definition
Examples of clean energy utilization are; agrivoltaic system, hybrid converter, tidal electricity generation, microgrid-wind power, and ocean thermal energy conversion.
Uses of data mining are; sales forecasting, criminal investigation, business decision-making, cyber security systems management, and environmental impact assessment.
Examples of data mining are; real-time service optimization, regression-based prediction, decision tree analysis, algorithmic diagnosis, fraud detection by clustering.