Author: Peter F. Varadi
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 9814613290
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 550
Book Description
The meteoric rise of the photovoltaic (PV) industry is an incredible story. In 2013, Google’s investments in PV systems totaled about half a billion dollars and Warren Buffet, one of the famous investors, invested $2.5 billion in the world’s largest PV system in California. These gigantic investments by major financial players were made only 40 years after the first two terrestrial PV companies, Solarex and Solar Power Corporation, were formed in the USA. Back in 1973, the two companies employed 20 people and produced only 500 watts of PV power. Now, just 40 years later, over a million people work in the PV industry. The worldwide capacity of operating PV electric generators equals the capacity of about 25 nuclear power plants. The PV industry is growing at an annual rate of 30 percent, equivalent to about five new nuclear power plants per year. Today, solar electricity is a significant supplier of electricity needs, to the extent that PV is forcing the restructuring of 100-year-old electric power utilities. This book describes how this happened and what lies ahead for PV power generation.
Sun Above the Horizon
Author: Peter F. Varadi
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 9814613290
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 550
Book Description
The meteoric rise of the photovoltaic (PV) industry is an incredible story. In 2013, Google’s investments in PV systems totaled about half a billion dollars and Warren Buffet, one of the famous investors, invested $2.5 billion in the world’s largest PV system in California. These gigantic investments by major financial players were made only 40 years after the first two terrestrial PV companies, Solarex and Solar Power Corporation, were formed in the USA. Back in 1973, the two companies employed 20 people and produced only 500 watts of PV power. Now, just 40 years later, over a million people work in the PV industry. The worldwide capacity of operating PV electric generators equals the capacity of about 25 nuclear power plants. The PV industry is growing at an annual rate of 30 percent, equivalent to about five new nuclear power plants per year. Today, solar electricity is a significant supplier of electricity needs, to the extent that PV is forcing the restructuring of 100-year-old electric power utilities. This book describes how this happened and what lies ahead for PV power generation.
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 9814613290
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 550
Book Description
The meteoric rise of the photovoltaic (PV) industry is an incredible story. In 2013, Google’s investments in PV systems totaled about half a billion dollars and Warren Buffet, one of the famous investors, invested $2.5 billion in the world’s largest PV system in California. These gigantic investments by major financial players were made only 40 years after the first two terrestrial PV companies, Solarex and Solar Power Corporation, were formed in the USA. Back in 1973, the two companies employed 20 people and produced only 500 watts of PV power. Now, just 40 years later, over a million people work in the PV industry. The worldwide capacity of operating PV electric generators equals the capacity of about 25 nuclear power plants. The PV industry is growing at an annual rate of 30 percent, equivalent to about five new nuclear power plants per year. Today, solar electricity is a significant supplier of electricity needs, to the extent that PV is forcing the restructuring of 100-year-old electric power utilities. This book describes how this happened and what lies ahead for PV power generation.
Federal Communications Commission Reports
Author: United States. Federal Communications Commission
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Radio
Languages : en
Pages : 902
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Radio
Languages : en
Pages : 902
Book Description
The Marketmakers
Author: Nancy Wimmer
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781723009563
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
In less than a decade, Bangladesh has achieved something extraordinary in the developing world: solar power for its off-grid rural population. Bangladesh is now home to the world's largest rural market for solar home systems. This is a market like no other. It owes its success to unique public-private partnerships, outstanding leadership, rural entrepreneurs-and a little bit of luck. Read the amazing story about the making of a solar market in a place it was least expected to thrive-told by the people who made it happen: THE MARKETMAKERS. Look to Bangladesh Here is a market like no other. Not in the megacity, Dhaka, but in village markets and bazars, in tribal hamlets in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, on islands in the Brahmaputra River and in the fishing villages along the Bay of Bengal. This is rural Bangladesh, where 70% of the population lives. And in this respect Bangladesh is no different from other developing countries in Asia and Africa. But Bangladesh stands out: It is home to a thriving rural market for solar home systems―a market based on private enterprise, competition and innovation. No doubt, rural business is tough. How do you create demand for solar power given limited household incomes and a technology no one has ever heard of? And how do you ensure quality service to remote households scattered across a river delta? Many see the answer in subsidizing the solar systems. Bangladesh showed that subsidies alone won't create a market. Developing a solar market takes more―much more: rural entrepreneurs, finance, innovative business models and leadership. If you envision rural business to be a driving force for progress in developing countries, then look to Bangladesh and hear from the very different players who joined forces to make it happen: The Marketmakers.
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781723009563
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
In less than a decade, Bangladesh has achieved something extraordinary in the developing world: solar power for its off-grid rural population. Bangladesh is now home to the world's largest rural market for solar home systems. This is a market like no other. It owes its success to unique public-private partnerships, outstanding leadership, rural entrepreneurs-and a little bit of luck. Read the amazing story about the making of a solar market in a place it was least expected to thrive-told by the people who made it happen: THE MARKETMAKERS. Look to Bangladesh Here is a market like no other. Not in the megacity, Dhaka, but in village markets and bazars, in tribal hamlets in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, on islands in the Brahmaputra River and in the fishing villages along the Bay of Bengal. This is rural Bangladesh, where 70% of the population lives. And in this respect Bangladesh is no different from other developing countries in Asia and Africa. But Bangladesh stands out: It is home to a thriving rural market for solar home systems―a market based on private enterprise, competition and innovation. No doubt, rural business is tough. How do you create demand for solar power given limited household incomes and a technology no one has ever heard of? And how do you ensure quality service to remote households scattered across a river delta? Many see the answer in subsidizing the solar systems. Bangladesh showed that subsidies alone won't create a market. Developing a solar market takes more―much more: rural entrepreneurs, finance, innovative business models and leadership. If you envision rural business to be a driving force for progress in developing countries, then look to Bangladesh and hear from the very different players who joined forces to make it happen: The Marketmakers.
Beautiful Data
Author: Orit Halpern
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822376326
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
Beautiful Data is both a history of big data and interactivity, and a sophisticated meditation on ideas about vision and cognition in the second half of the twentieth century. Contending that our forms of attention, observation, and truth are contingent and contested, Orit Halpern historicizes the ways that we are trained, and train ourselves, to observe and analyze the world. Tracing the postwar impact of cybernetics and the communication sciences on the social and human sciences, design, arts, and urban planning, she finds a radical shift in attitudes toward recording and displaying information. These changed attitudes produced what she calls communicative objectivity: new forms of observation, rationality, and economy based on the management and analysis of data. Halpern complicates assumptions about the value of data and visualization, arguing that changes in how we manage and train perception, and define reason and intelligence, are also transformations in governmentality. She also challenges the paradoxical belief that we are experiencing a crisis of attention caused by digital media, a crisis that can be resolved only through intensified media consumption.
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822376326
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
Beautiful Data is both a history of big data and interactivity, and a sophisticated meditation on ideas about vision and cognition in the second half of the twentieth century. Contending that our forms of attention, observation, and truth are contingent and contested, Orit Halpern historicizes the ways that we are trained, and train ourselves, to observe and analyze the world. Tracing the postwar impact of cybernetics and the communication sciences on the social and human sciences, design, arts, and urban planning, she finds a radical shift in attitudes toward recording and displaying information. These changed attitudes produced what she calls communicative objectivity: new forms of observation, rationality, and economy based on the management and analysis of data. Halpern complicates assumptions about the value of data and visualization, arguing that changes in how we manage and train perception, and define reason and intelligence, are also transformations in governmentality. She also challenges the paradoxical belief that we are experiencing a crisis of attention caused by digital media, a crisis that can be resolved only through intensified media consumption.
Superpower
Author: Ross Garnaut
Publisher: Black Inc.
ISBN: 1743821174
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 211
Book Description
The fog of Australian politics on climate change has obscured a fateful reality: Australia has the potential to be an economic superpower of the future post-carbon world. We have unparalleled renewable energy resources. We also have the necessary scientific skills. Australia could be the natural home for an increasing proportion of global industry. But how do we make this happen? In this crisp, compelling book, Australia’s leading thinker about climate and energy policy offers a road map for progress, covering energy, transport, agriculture, the international scene and more. Rich in ideas and practical optimism, Superpower is a crucial, timely contribution to this country’s future.
Publisher: Black Inc.
ISBN: 1743821174
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 211
Book Description
The fog of Australian politics on climate change has obscured a fateful reality: Australia has the potential to be an economic superpower of the future post-carbon world. We have unparalleled renewable energy resources. We also have the necessary scientific skills. Australia could be the natural home for an increasing proportion of global industry. But how do we make this happen? In this crisp, compelling book, Australia’s leading thinker about climate and energy policy offers a road map for progress, covering energy, transport, agriculture, the international scene and more. Rich in ideas and practical optimism, Superpower is a crucial, timely contribution to this country’s future.
Energy Alternatives
Author: Margaret Haerens
Publisher: Greenhaven Publishing LLC
ISBN: 0737762640
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 205
Book Description
This must-have volume explores global developments in energy alternatives, focusing on nuclear energy, particularly the impact of the Fukushima nuclear crisis, as well as the politics and economics of energy alternatives. Primary sources and essays from international sources offer a truly panoramic view. Stellar essay sources include Yazeed Kamaldien, Integrated Regional Information Networks, Barack Obama, Young Il Choung, James Holloway, Yazeed Kamaldien, The Economist, and Siobhan Dowling.
Publisher: Greenhaven Publishing LLC
ISBN: 0737762640
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 205
Book Description
This must-have volume explores global developments in energy alternatives, focusing on nuclear energy, particularly the impact of the Fukushima nuclear crisis, as well as the politics and economics of energy alternatives. Primary sources and essays from international sources offer a truly panoramic view. Stellar essay sources include Yazeed Kamaldien, Integrated Regional Information Networks, Barack Obama, Young Il Choung, James Holloway, Yazeed Kamaldien, The Economist, and Siobhan Dowling.
Proceedings
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Reverse engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Reverse engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Making an Issue of Child Abuse
Author: Barbara J. Nelson
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226572013
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
A history of the social agenda of child abuse and policy set by society, government, and other agencies.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226572013
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
A history of the social agenda of child abuse and policy set by society, government, and other agencies.
Proceedings of International Conference on Advances in Computer Engineering and Communication Systems
Author: C. Kiran Mai
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 9811592934
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 554
Book Description
This book comprises the best deliberations with the theme “Smart Innovations in Mezzanine Technologies, Data Analytics, Networks and Communication Systems” in the “International Conference on Advances in Computer Engineering and Communication Systems (ICACECS 2020)”, organized by the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, VNR Vignana Jyothi Institute of Engineering and Technology. The book provides insights on the recent trends and developments in the field of computer science with a special focus on the mezzanine technologies and creates an arena for collaborative innovation. The book focuses on advanced topics in artificial intelligence, machine learning, data mining and big data computing, cloud computing, Internet on things, distributed computing and smart systems.
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 9811592934
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 554
Book Description
This book comprises the best deliberations with the theme “Smart Innovations in Mezzanine Technologies, Data Analytics, Networks and Communication Systems” in the “International Conference on Advances in Computer Engineering and Communication Systems (ICACECS 2020)”, organized by the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, VNR Vignana Jyothi Institute of Engineering and Technology. The book provides insights on the recent trends and developments in the field of computer science with a special focus on the mezzanine technologies and creates an arena for collaborative innovation. The book focuses on advanced topics in artificial intelligence, machine learning, data mining and big data computing, cloud computing, Internet on things, distributed computing and smart systems.
Smart and Innovative Trends in Next Generation Computing Technologies
Author: Pushpak Bhattacharyya
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 9811086575
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 843
Book Description
The two-volume set CCIS 827 and 828 constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Next Generation Computing Technologies, NGCT 2017, held in Dehradun, India, in October 2017. The 135 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 948 submissions. There were organized in topical sections named: Smart and Innovative Trends in Communication Protocols and Standards; Smart and Innovative Trends in Computational Intelligence and Data Science; Smart and Innovative Trends in Image Processing and Machine Vision; Smart Innovative Trends in Natural Language Processing for Indian Languages; Smart Innovative Trends in Security and Privacy.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 9811086575
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 843
Book Description
The two-volume set CCIS 827 and 828 constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Next Generation Computing Technologies, NGCT 2017, held in Dehradun, India, in October 2017. The 135 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 948 submissions. There were organized in topical sections named: Smart and Innovative Trends in Communication Protocols and Standards; Smart and Innovative Trends in Computational Intelligence and Data Science; Smart and Innovative Trends in Image Processing and Machine Vision; Smart Innovative Trends in Natural Language Processing for Indian Languages; Smart Innovative Trends in Security and Privacy.