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Following the sun : the pioneering years of solar energy research at the Australian National University, 1970-2005 /
In 1970 a small group of physicists at The Australian National University decided to veer away from the accepted and expected directions in energy research and pursued the emerging discipline of solar energy. Over the next decade ANU joined a small cluster of research institutions, including the CSI...
| Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Acton, A.C.T. :
ANU E Press,
2012.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- White cliffs: from laboratory to reality
- Why solar? Why then?
- The big dish: looking beyond the 1990s
- Evolution: solar energy research as a distinct entity
- The wider Australian solar scene: 1970s-1990s
- solar energy research and commercial expansion
- Environment, climate change and solar energy
- Solar energy in changing times
- Appendix 1. List of people interviewed
- Appendix 2. Organisational flow chart
- Appendix 3. One page summary from 1970s to present
- Appendix 4. Solar energy: explaining the science
- Appendix 5. Recommendations from the 1995 expert group on renewable energy technologies
- Appendix 6. Photos.