Power for the world the emergence of electricity from the sun

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author Palz, W. 1937-
Format eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Singapore : Pan Stanford Pub., 2011.
Subjects
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9789814303385
Physical Descriptionxxx, 575 p. : ill. (some col.), ports. (some col.).

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Table of Contents:
  • ch. 1, pt. 1. The rising sun in a developing world
  • ch. 1, pt. 2. Solar power for the world
  • ch. 1, pt. 3. PV today and forever
  • ch. 2. My solar age started with Tchernobyl / Franz Alt
  • ch. 3. More electricity for less Co[subscript 2] / Yves Bamberger
  • ch. 4. Solar power in practice / Stefan Behling
  • ch. 5. The story of developing solar glass facades / Joachim Benemann
  • ch. 6. Bringing the oil industry into the picture / Karl Wolfgang Böer
  • ch. 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 / Dieter Bonnet
  • ch. 8. Photovoltaics in the World Bank Group portfolio / Anil Cabraal
  • ch. 9. Solar bicycles, Mercedes, handcuffs : plus energy buildings / Gallus Cadonau
  • ch. 10. Photovoltaic power systems for lifting women out of poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa / Dominique Campana
  • ch. 11. Solar cell development work at COMSAT Laboratories (1967-1975) / Denis J. Curtin
  • ch. 12. SolarBank / Michael T. Eckhart
  • ch. 13. Will this work? Is it realistic? : thoughts and acts of a political practitioner with a solar vision / Hans-Josef Fell
  • ch. 14. The IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference / Americo F. (Moe) Forestieri
  • ch. 15. Review of China's solar PV industry in 2009 / Gao Hu
  • ch. 16. Lighting the world : yesterday, today and tomorrow / Biswajit Ghosh
  • ch. 17. The role of research institutes for the promotion of PV : the case of Fraunhofer ISE (Institute of Solar Energy Systems) / Adolf Goetzberger
  • ch. 18. Abandoning nuclear in favor of renewable energies / Giuliano Grassi
  • ch. 19. Nonconventional sensitized mesoscopic (Grätzel) solar cells / Michael Grätzel
  • ch. 20. The PV World Conference in Vienna / Wolfgang Hein
  • ch. 21. PV in Japan : yesterday, today and tomorrow / Osamui Ikki and Izumi Kaizuka
  • ch. 22. PV in Europe, from 1974 to 2009 : a personal experience / Helmut Kiess
  • ch. 23. PV in Berlin : how it all began : the story of solon, Q-Cells, PV in Brazil / Stefan Krauter
  • ch. 24. Three steps to a solar system : 1-40% and 100% / Harry Lehmann
  • ch. 25. France did not want to look for the sun ... / Alain Liébard and Yves-Bruno Civel
  • ch. 26. On the international call for photovoltaics of 2008 / Daniel Lincot
  • -ch. 27. High efficiency photovoltaics for a sustainable world / Antonio Luque
  • ch. 28. Promoting PV in developing countries / Bernard McNelis
  • ch. 29. A world in blue / Bernd Melchior
  • ch. 30. The history of renewable energies in the Canary Islands, especially in Tenerife / Ricardo Melchior and Manuel Cendagorta
  • ch. 31. Why was Switzerland front-runner for PV in the 90s but lost the leadership after 2000? / Thomas Nordmann
  • ch. 32. A world network for solar R&D : ISES / Monica Oliphant
  • ch. 33. Early work on photovoltaic devices at the Bell Telephone Laboratories / Morton B. Prince
  • ch. 34. Leaders of the early days of the Chinese solar industry / Qin Haiyan
  • ch. 35. Illiterate rural grandmothers solar-electrifying their own villages / Bunker Roy
  • ch. 36. The kick-off PV programme in Germany : the one thousand PV roofs programme / Walter Sandtner
  • ch. 37. History of technologies, development for solar silicon cost reduction / Frederick Schmid
  • -ch. 38. The story of sunpower / Richard M. Swanson
  • ch. 39. Terrestrial photovoltaic industry : the beginning / Peter F. Varadi
  • ch. 40. Solar power in Geneva, Switzerland / Philippe Verburgh
  • ch. 41. Early PV markets and solar solutions in South Asia / Neville Williams.