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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
How do solar panels turn light into energy?
gpt
Solar panels turn light into *electricity.* That's an important distinction.

The short answer is something called the *photovoltaic effect.* Put simply, shining light on a particular type of material liberates electrons from the atoms in that material, causing them to move about. Moving electrons is electricity.

(Sorry, said "photoelectric" originally, should've said "photovoltaic." It's going to be one of those days, apparently.)