I’ve seen the sun as a dragon, a coin, a furnace, even a weary old man in a few novels, and it’s funny how those images sneak into the tech world. The name Helios is a direct lift from Greek myth that shows up on every solar‑cell datasheet, and the idea of a “solar flare” comes from the same fiery imagination that makes sun‑spot captions in comic books. But the science behind a PV panel stays stubbornly dry: photons hit a semiconductor, electrons jump, and electricity flows. The real‑world spark comes from people’s imagination turning those poetic pictures into questions that engineers can answer, like “how can we make a coin‑sized sun on a roof?” It’s a mix of narrative fuel and hard numbers. If the sun is a dragon, the only thing it’s really good at is burning, not powering my rooftop.

Glad to hear the dragon vibe still roars—just not on the roof, on the lab bench instead. The silicon beast does the heavy lifting, but a good metaphor keeps the spark alive in the public mind. Keep feeding that story into your panels, and the math will do the rest.