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Mention three advantage of a solar cell.

The three advantages of solar cell are:

(a) Solar cells can be set up in remote, inaccessible and sparsely inhabited areas where laying of usual power transmission lines are difficult and expensive.


(b) They require very less maintenance


(c) They have no moving parts and work satisfactorily without the use of any focussing device to focus light.


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