For More Efficient Solar Energy Applications - Softcover

Soliman, Fouad A. S.; I. E. Mira, Hamed

 
9786202801003: For More Efficient Solar Energy Applications

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The development of affordable, inexhaustible and clean solar energy technologies will have huge longer-term benefits. It will increase countries’ energy security through reliance on an indigenous, inexhaustible and mostly import-independent resource, enhance sustainability, reduce pollution, lower the costs of mitigating climate change, and keep fossil fuel prices lower than otherwise. These advantages are global. Hence the additional costs of the incentives for early deployment should be considered learning investments; they must be wisely spent and need to be widely shared.Converting solar radiation into direct current electricity using semiconductors that exhibit the photovoltaic effect. Photovoltaic power generation employs solar panels composed of a number of solar cells containing a photovoltaic material. Materials presently used for photovoltaics include mono-crystalline silicon, polycrystalline silicon, amorphous silicon, cadmium telluride, and copper indium gallium selenide/sulfide. Due to the increased demand for renewable energy sources, the manufacturing of solar cells and photovoltaic arrays has advanced considerably in recent years.

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Dr. Eng. Fouad A. S. Soliman - Prof. of Electronics and Computers Engineering Nuclear Materials Authority, Cairo, Egypt.Dr. Hamed I. E. Mira - Prof. of Geology and Geochemistry Chairman, Nuclear Materials Authority, Cairo, Egypt.

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