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 Technology Fundamentals
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Solar cell, photo effect, holes and photons?
Explanations of the principles of a solar cell are normally hard to follow by non-experts.
However, this is also possible in a clear and understandable way as you can see at the following book excerpt.
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An enormous market in China, ambitious targets in the EU … but what are the basics of solar
water heating? This article describes the principles and technology for using solar energy
to heat water, and looks at applications for domestic hot water and space heating.
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This article describes the basics of direct solar electricity generation using photovoltaic
systems, looking at the different cell and module types and the related technology.
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Many people associate solar electricity generation directly with photovoltaics and not
with solar thermal power. Yet large, commercial, concentrating solar thermal power plants
have been generating electricity at reasonable costs for a lot of years.
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The sun is the source of the life on our planet Earth and, directly or indirectly, is the fuel
for most renewable systems. Photovoltaic and solar thermal systems, as well as solar thermal
power stations, convert solar irradiation directly into useable energy.
This article gives an overview of the solar energy resource.
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