Power for the World: The Emergence of Electricity from the SunThe 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. |
Contents
Chapter 1 | 1 |
Chapter 2 My Solar Age Started with Tchernobyl | 131 |
Chapter 3 More Electricity for Less CO2 | 137 |
Chapter 4 Solar Power in Practice | 143 |
Chapter 5 The Story of Developing Solar Glass Facades | 155 |
Chapter 6 Bringing the Oil Industry into the Picture | 159 |
The Story of the ThinFilm CdTe Solar Cells First Solar and Others A SemiAutobiography | 165 |
Chapter 8 Photovoltaics in the World Bank Group Portfolio1 | 171 |
A Personal Experience | 367 |
The Story of Solon QCells PV in Brazil | 373 |
Chapter 24 Three Steps to a Solar System 140 and 100 | 383 |
Chapter 25 France Did Not Want to Look for the Sun | 399 |
Chapter 26 On the International Call for Photovoltaics of 2008 | 403 |
Chapter 27 High Efficiency Photovoltaics for a Sustainable World | 417 |
Chapter 28 Promoting PV in Developing Countries | 427 |
Chapter 29 A World In Blue | 453 |
Chapter 9 Solar Bicycles Mercedes Handcuffs PlusEnergy Buildings | 187 |
Chapter 10 Photovoltaic Power Systems for Lifting Women Out of Poverty in SubSaharan Africa | 273 |
Chapter 11 Solar Cell Development Work At COMSAT Laboratories 19671975 | 281 |
Chapter 12 SolarBank | 285 |
Chapter 13 Will This Work? Is It Realistic? Thoughts and Acts of a Political Practitioner with a Solar Vision | 297 |
Chapter 14 The IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference | 305 |
Chapter 15 Review of Chinas Solar PV Industry in 2009 | 311 |
Yesterday Today and Tomorrow | 315 |
The Case of Fraunhofer ISE Institute of Solar Energy Systems | 323 |
Chapter 18 Abandoning Nuclear in Favor of Renewable Energies The Life Story of Giuliano Grassi Florence Italy | 329 |
Chapter 19 Nonconventional Sensitized Mesoscopic Grätzel Solar Cells | 347 |
Chapter 20 The PV World Conference in Vienna | 353 |
Chapter 21 PV in Japan Yesterday Today and Tomorrow | 359 |
Chapter 30 The History of Renewable Energies in the Canary Islands Especially in Tenerife | 479 |
Chapter 31 Why was Switzerland FrontRunner for PV in the 90s but Lost the Leadership After 2000? | 485 |
ISES | 491 |
Chapter 33 Early Work on Photovoltatic Devices at the Bell Telephone Laboratories | 497 |
Chapter 34 Leaders of the Early Days of the Chinese Solar Industry | 499 |
Chapter 35 Illiterate Rural Grandmothers SolarElectrifying Their Own Villages | 507 |
The One Thousand PV Roofs Programme | 513 |
Chapter 37 History of Technologies Development for Solar Silicon Cost Reduction | 517 |
Chapter 38 The Story of SunPower | 531 |
Chapter 39 Terrestrial Photovoltaic Industry The Beginning | 555 |
Chapter 40 Solar Power in Geneva Switzerland | 569 |
Chapter 41 Early PV Markets and Solar Solutions in South Asia | 571 |
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Power for the World: The Emergence of Electricity from the Sun Wolfgang Palz No preview available - 2010 |
Power for the World: The Emergence of Electricity from the Sun Wolfgang Palz No preview available - 2010 |
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