Summarize: This article explains different ways Solar Energy can be produced and how. It states that heat production by solar is less harmful to the environment than fossil fuel combustion. The article also gives detailed descriptions of scientific theories and the conversion process.

Assess: The resource is up to date and the information comes from a scientist and a professor of chemistry which makes it credible.

Reflect: I plan on using this source in my project because it provided the detailed scientific process of producing solar energy. This source was helpful and had a lot of important facts and information that I can use for my project.

Source: Crabtree,G., Lewis,N. (2007). Solar Energy Conversion. Retrieved from: authors.library.caltech.edu/7721/1/crapt07.pdf

Summarize: This article is about a plan for solar energy to take into effect within the next fifty years. In this plan it talks about 90% of the energy on earth to be produced in Solar panels all over the world.

Assess: The resource is up to date with its information and has facts given by the president of a solar company-Ken Zweibel, a director of the Solar Energy Campaign and Research Institute-James Mason, and the head of the Photovoltaic Environmental Research-Vasilis Fthenakis.

Source: Zweibel,K., Mason,J.,Fthenakis,V. (2008) www.nature.com/scientificamerican/journal/v298/n1/fullscientificamerican-.html