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Module 5 - EHT

The document discusses the challenges and technologies related to energy production, particularly focusing on solar energy and its potential for human development. It emphasizes the need for a comprehensive framework to categorize and analyze solar technologies effectively. Additionally, it touches on various forms of luminescence and their applications in energy production.

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Module 5 - EHT

The document discusses the challenges and technologies related to energy production, particularly focusing on solar energy and its potential for human development. It emphasizes the need for a comprehensive framework to categorize and analyze solar technologies effectively. Additionally, it touches on various forms of luminescence and their applications in energy production.

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Waste Energies

Flow chart of the energy production and storage processes where nanotechnology
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may contribute.
Energy: Fuel for Development

Our energy today is


• Often produced in some far away land
• Transported over thousands of miles
• Brought home at great risk

Why do we go to such extremes? Cant we find a better way?


Electricity consumption

The world at Night


Human development map

Facebook
Energy: Fuel for Development
Solar resource
Solar Resource Base
Industrial Installations
Photovoltaics: Historical Perspective and Current Challenges
Framework for the Solar Energy Technology Universe

Motivation:
Several hundreds of technologies exist to convert solar radiant energy into other usable
forms that perform work for humanity.
To make sense of this technology space, and to produce meaningful technology assessments
and projections, a technology framework is helpful.

Design Principles for the Technology Framework:

Exhaustive categorization
Our technology framework must provide a meaningful framework to categorize 90+% of solar
energy technologies today.

30 years challenge
The framework should be time‐immutable, useful also in 30 years (within which time solar
may “come of age”).

Useful analysis tool


The framework must provide a tool to economists and social scientists, to divide the solar space
into meaningful units that can be analyzed independently
Assignment
• Emit light of a specific wavelength without emitting heat and return to a ground state
from an excited state – absorbed external energy.
• When the source of energy absorbed – chemical reaction – chemiluminescence
• When light is the energy absorbed – photoluminescence (Fluorescence and
phosphorescence)
• When light emission by fireflies and deep sea organisms – bioluminescence
• When minerals emits light while being heated - Thermoluminescence
• When materials emits light response to passage of electric current or field –
Electroluminescence
• When materials impacting on luminescent (phospor) emission of photons – visible
spectrum
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Are you confused about the difference between solar panels and photovoltaic cells?

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