Power for the World
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Power for the World

The Emergence of Electricity from the Sun

  1. 575 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Power for the World

The Emergence of Electricity from the Sun

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The book comes in three parts: "The Rising Sun in a Developing World", "Solar Power for the World" and "PV Today and Forever". It provides a historical summary and gives a comprehensive overview of the present photovoltaic (PV) situation worldwide and future strategies for development and implementation. The author is a world leader in PV and all r

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Publisher
Jenny Stanford Publishing
Year
2010
ISBN
9789814303385
Edition
1
Topic
Biological Sciences
Subtopic
Environmental Science
Index
Biological Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Contents
  6. About the Author
  7. List of Contributors
  8. Hymn to the Sun
  9. Foreword
  10. Introduction
  11. Chapter 1
  12. Part I: The Rising Sun in a Developing World
  13. Part II: Solar Power for the World
  14. Part III: PV Today and Forever
  15. Chapter 2 My Solar Age Started with Tchernobyl
  16. Chapter 3 More Electricity for Less Co[sub(2)]
  17. Chapter 4 Solar Power in Practice
  18. Chapter 5 The Story of Developing Solar Glass Facades
  19. Chapter 6 Bringing the Oil Industry into the Picture
  20. Chapter 7 Factory for Sale — or the Long and Stony Way to Cheap Solar Energy: The Story of the Thin-Film CdTe Solar Cells; First Solar and Others — A Semi-Autobiography
  21. Chapter 8 Photovoltaics in the World Bank Group Portfolio
  22. Chapter 9 Solar Bicycles, Mercedes, Handcuffs — PlusEnergy Buildings
  23. Chapter 10 Photovoltaic Power Systems for Lifting Women Out of Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa
  24. Chapter 11 Solar Cell Development Work at COMSAT Laboratories (1967–1975)
  25. Chapter 12 SolarBank
  26. Chapter 13 Will This Work? Is It Realistic? Thoughts and Acts of a Political Practitioner with a Solar Vision
  27. Chapter 14 The IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference
  28. Chapter 15 Review of China's Solar PV Industry in 2009
  29. Chapter 16 Lighting the World: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
  30. Chapter 17 The Role of Research Institutes for the Promotion of PV: The Case of Fraunhofer ISE (Institute of Solar Energy Systems)
  31. Chapter 18 Abandoning Nuclear in Favor of Renewable Energies
  32. Chapter 19 Nonconventional Sensitized Mesoscopic (Grätzel) Solar Cells
  33. Chapter 20 The PV World Conference in Vienna
  34. Chapter 21 PV in Japan — Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
  35. Chapter 22 PV in Europe, from 1974 to 2009: A Personal Experience
  36. Chapter 23 PV in Berlin — How It All Began: The Story of Solon, Q-Cells, PV in Brazil
  37. Chapter 24 Three Steps to a Solar System — 1-40% and 100%
  38. Chapter 25 France Did Not Want to Look for the Sun...
  39. Chapter 26 On the International Call for Photovoltaics of 2008
  40. Chapter 27 High Efficiency Photovoltaics for a Sustainable World
  41. Chapter 28 Promoting PV in Developing Countries
  42. Chapter 29 A World In Blue
  43. Chapter 30 The History of Renewable Energies in the Canary Islands, Especially in Tenerife
  44. Chapter 31 Why was Switzerland Front-Runner for PV in the 90s but Lost the Leadership After 2000?
  45. Chapter 32 A World Network for Solar R&D: ISES
  46. Chapter 33 Early Work on Photovoltaic Devices at the Bell Telephone Laboratories
  47. Chapter 34 Leaders of the Early Days of the Chinese Solar Industry
  48. Chapter 35 Illiterate Rural Grandmothers Solar-Electrifying Their Own Villages
  49. Chapter 36 The Kick-off PV Programme in Germany: The One Thousand PV Roofs Programme
  50. Chapter 37 History of Technologies, Development for Solar Silicon Cost Reduction
  51. Chapter 38 The Story of Sunpower
  52. Chapter 39 Terrestrial Photovoltaic Industry — The Beginning
  53. Chapter 40 Solar Power in Geneva, Switzerland
  54. Chapter 41 Early PV Markets and Solar Solutions in South Asia