astronomy

Toul-Rosières Solar Park

Toul-Rosières Solar Park is a astronomy topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Toul-Rosières Solar Park rather than just read about it. In short: The Toul-Rosières Solar Park is a 115 megawatt (MW) solar farm located at the former Toul-Rosières Air Base, in France. In November 1953, the 465th Troop Carrier Group of the United States Air Force with Fairchild C-119 Flying Boxcars moved to Toul-Rosières Air Base and was assigned to the 63d Troop Carrier Wing.

Key takeaways

Toul-Rosières Solar Park belongs to astronomy; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect Toul-Rosières Solar Park to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Toul-Rosières Solar Park from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

The Toul-Rosières Solar Park is a 115 megawatt (MW) solar farm located at the former Toul-Rosières Air Base, in France. In November 1953, the 465th Troop Carrier Group of the United States Air Force with Fairchild C-119 Flying Boxcars moved to Toul-Rosières Air Base and was assigned to the 63d Troop Carrier Wing. Later, the airbase housed the 21st Fighter-Bomber Group in the late 1950s, before being handed over to the French Air Force. The park is the largest solar power station using photovoltaic technology in France. The project was developed by EDF Énergies Nouvelles (EDF EN). The solar park has about 1.4 million thin-film PV panels based on CdTe technology made by the US company First Solar. It covers an area of 367 hectares (910 acres). In 2012, the Luxembourg-based Marguerite Fund acquired a 36 MW stake in the solar park. A 24 MW stake was sold to the independent power producer Sonnedix.

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Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Toul-Rosières Solar Park

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Toul-Rosières Solar Park claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In astronomy, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Toul-Rosières Solar Park before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Toul-Rosières Solar Park ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Toul-Rosières Solar Park

In research: Toul-Rosières Solar Park appears in astronomy research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Toul-Rosières Solar Park in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Toul-Rosières Solar Park is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics French building and structure stubs, Photovoltaic power stations in France, Renewable power plant stubs, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Toul-Rosières Solar Park outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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Frequently asked questions

What is Toul-Rosières Solar Park in simple terms?

Why does Toul-Rosières Solar Park matter?

Because it connects several astronomy ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Toul-Rosières Solar Park?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on Toul-Rosières Solar Park.