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- Advanced Photovoltaics Research in photovoltaics by the Brownson group at Penn State. (materials, systems simulations, and economics).
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- Stuart Bowden and Christiana Honsberg's PVCDROM A freely available web textbook emphasizing silicon photovoltaics and the solar resource.
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- Advanced Photovoltaics Research in photovoltaics by the Brownson group at Penn State. (materials, systems simulations, and economics).
- Arizona State University's Solar Power Lab Arizona State University’s Solar Power Lab serves as a staging ground for the new technologies, education, and ideas to move forward in our quest for a more sustainable society.
- Solar @ MIT Buonassisi Researcg Group in Silicon PV
Solar Economics
- Advanced Photovoltaics Research in photovoltaics by the Brownson group at Penn State. (materials, systems simulations, and economics).
- GUNTHER Portfolio Solar photovoltaic technologies, companies, industry developments, and occasional energy politics
- Prometheus Institute for Sustainable Development Strives to be the world’s leading source of publicly available primary data on the photovoltaic (PV) supply chain and end-markets
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Educational Talk on Solar Energy

Posted by nanomech on 2009/09/13

Solar hot water systems, and the technologies that make them possible, hold crucial pieces of information relevant to developing advanced photovoltaic systems. For the most part, photovoltaics are still just “flat plate collectors”, collecting thermal heat in addition to electricity. This talk by solar historian, John Perlin, offers an important glimpse of the historical context of solar energy technologies.

Video interview provided by Eon’s Video Blog on bliptv.

Books on solar energy by Perlin:

A Golden Thread: 2500 Years of Solar Architecture and Technology (1980) Ken Butti and John Perlin (foreward by Amory Lovins). Cheshire Books, Palo Alto.

From Space to Earth: The Story of Solar Electricity (1999, 2002) John Perlin. (Aatec Press) Harvard University Press.

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