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Towards Sustainable Renewable Energy

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The ongoing evolution of civilization is indelibly marked by our proficiency in harnessing energy beyond mere human and animal labor. The advent of successive industrial and agricultural revolutions has enabled a growing segment of the global populace to enjoy the comforts of heated and illuminated homes, the bountiful yields of fertilized and irrigated crops, the connectedness facilitated by technology, and the accessibility of far-reaching travel. These milestones of progress are driven by our ever-expanding ability to locate, extract, and utilize energy with ever-greater mastery. Advances in materials science hold the key to a sustainable future, characterized by clean energy generation, transmission, and distribution, the effective storage of electrical and chemical energy, enhanced energy efficiency, and more sophisticated energy management systems.

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  1. Department of Research and Development, College of Civil Aviation, Misrata, Libya

    Mohamed Khaleel

  2. Electrical-Electronics Engineering, Karabuk University, Karabuk, Turkey

    Ziyodulla Yusupov

  3. Mechanical Engineering, Bani Waleed University, Tripoli, Libya

    Abdussalam Ahmed

  4. Electrical Engineering School, Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Johor, Malaysia

    Abdulgader Alsharif

  5. Mechancal and Renewable energy. Eng, Wadi Alshatti University, Brack, Libya

    Yasser Nassar

  6. Department of Electrical Eng. and Smart Systems, Islamic Univ. of Gaza, Gaza Strip, Palestine

    Hala El-Khozondar

  7. Department of Materials and London Centre for Nanotechnology, Imperial College London, London, UK

    Hala El-Khozondar

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Khaleel, M., Yusupov, Z., Ahmed, A. et al. Towards Sustainable Renewable Energy. Appl. Sol. Energy 59, 557–567 (2023). https://doi.org/10.3103/S0003701X23600704

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