Abstract In this era of rapid industrialization, power is one of the most crucial components for the economic growth and welfare of nations. India, being a developing nation, has always faced deficiency of power. Consumption of fossil fuels in gigantic volumes to generate electricity has...
“We live in a world bathed in five thousand times more energy than we consume as a species in the year, in the form of solar energy” claims Peter Diamandis, founder of the X Prize Foundation. Humans will have to change the energy sources they...
Concentrated solar power systems generate solar power by using mirrors or lenses to concentrate a large area of sunlight, or solar thermal energy, onto a small area. Electricity is generated when the concentrated light is converted to heat, which drives a heat engine (usually a...
In “The Solar Dream,” Professor Bernard L. Cohen from the University of Pittsburgh argues that solar energy will not replace nuclear energy anytime soon. He says that producing solar energy costs much more than producing energy via a nuclear power plant. Not only does it...
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