Solar Energy - the State of the Art - ISES Position Papers

Hardcover  720pp  ISBN 9781902916231      £85.00

The book comprises 12 chapters, each dedicated to one of the major solar-energy sub-disciplines and authored by an internationally recognised expert in the field. Subjects covered include:

• Solar and natural resources for a better efficeincy in the built environment
• Glazings and coatings
• Selectively solar-absorbing coatings
• Solar collectors
• Solar water heating
• Photovoltaic physics and devices
• Solar concentrators
• The cost of pollution and the benefit of solar energy
• Solar porcess heat: distillation, drying, agricultural and industrial uses
• Solar resource assessment: a review
• Solar thermal electricity
• Wind energy review