Buch, Englisch, 575 Seiten, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 254 mm, Gewicht: 1288 g
Buch, Englisch, 575 Seiten, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 254 mm, Gewicht: 1288 g
Reihe: Jenny Stanford Series on Renewable Energy
ISBN: 978-981-4303-37-8
Verlag: Pan Stanford
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 renewable energies.The book is illustrated with about 100 pictures.
Zielgruppe
Academic and Postgraduate
Autoren/Hrsg.
Fachgebiete
Weitere Infos & Material
About the Author, List of Contributors, Hymn to the Sun, Foreword, Introduction, Chapter 1, Chapter 2 My Solar Age Started with Tchernobyl, Chapter 3 More Electricity for Less Co[sub(2)], Chapter 4 Solar Power in Practice, Chapter 5 The Story of Developing Solar Glass Facades, Chapter 6 Bringing the Oil Industry into the Picture, 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, Chapter 8 Photovoltaics in the World Bank Group Portfolio, Chapter 9 Solar Bicycles, Mercedes, Handcuffs — PlusEnergy Buildings, Chapter 10 Photovoltaic Power Systems for Lifting Women Out of Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa, Chapter 11 Solar Cell Development Work at COMSAT Laboratories (1967–1975), Chapter 12 SolarBank, Chapter 13 Will This Work? Is It Realistic? Thoughts and Acts of a Political Practitioner with a Solar Vision, Chapter 14 The IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, Chapter 15 Review of China's Solar PV Industry in 2009, Chapter 16 Lighting the World: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow, Chapter 17 The Role of Research Institutes for the Promotion of PV: The Case of Fraunhofer ISE (Institute of Solar Energy Systems), Chapter 18 Abandoning Nuclear in Favor of Renewable Energies, Chapter 19 Nonconventional Sensitized Mesoscopic (Grätzel) Solar Cells, Chapter 20 The PV World Conference in Vienna, Chapter 21 PV in Japan — Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow, Chapter 22 PV in Europe, from 1974 to 2009: A Personal Experience, Chapter 23 PV in Berlin — How It All Began: The Story of Solon, Q-Cells, PV in Brazil, Chapter 24 Three Steps to a Solar System — 1-40% and 100%, Chapter 25 France Did Not Want to Look for the Sun., Chapter 26 On the International Call for Photovoltaics of 2008, Chapter 27 High Efficiency Photovoltaics for a Sustainable World, Chapter 28 Promoting PV in Developing Countries, Chapter 29 A World In Blue, Chapter 30 The History of Renewable Energies in the Canary Islands, Especially in Tenerife, Chapter 31 Why was Switzerland Front-Runner for PV in the 90s but Lost the Leadership After 2000?, Chapter 32 A World Network for Solar R&D: ISES, Chapter 33 Early Work on Photovoltaic Devices at the Bell Telephone Laboratories, Chapter 34 Leaders of the Early Days of the Chinese Solar Industry, Chapter 35 Illiterate Rural Grandmothers Solar-Electrifying Their Own Villages, Chapter 36 The Kick-off PV Programme in Germany: The One Thousand PV Roofs Programme, Chapter 37 History of Technologies, Development for Solar Silicon Cost Reduction, Chapter 38 The Story of Sunpower, Chapter 39 Terrestrial Photovoltaic Industry — The Beginning, Chapter 40 Solar Power in Geneva, Switzerland, Chapter 41 Early PV Markets and Solar Solutions in South Asia
