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The worldwide activities in research and industry, with considerable state participation aimed at exploiting solar energy to supply electric power, has to be seen within the context of strategies directed to a long-term solution of energy problems. Newly awakened interest in utilizing mankind’s oldest source of energy results from its outstanding qualities such as inexhaustibility, positive environmental quality of energy conversion, and decentralized availability.
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Schmidt, E.F. (1982). Electricity from the Sun — Photovoltaics. In: Thielheim, K.O. (eds) Primary Energy. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-68444-9_15
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