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Water security in a new world, 2024

Cleaner, more autonomous, lower-cost, and more resilient futures are tantalizingly close for the ... more Cleaner, more autonomous, lower-cost, and more resilient futures are tantalizingly close for the Pacific peoples and the opportunities might be grasped if an analogue of the focus, urgency and camaraderie, and competitive-yet-cooperative spirit that has characterized the multinational race for COVID-19 vaccines in 2020 can be brought to bear on this other crisis too.

Journal of Applied Physics, 2003

The radiative recombination coefficient B(T) of intrinsic crystalline silicon is determined as a ... more The radiative recombination coefficient B(T) of intrinsic crystalline silicon is determined as a function of temperature over the temperature range 77-300 K. We observe that B(T) decreases as a function of temperature and we compare our results to previously published contradictory data from the literature. The radiative recombination coefficient is calculated from the absorption coefficient for band-to-band transitions, which we determine at different temperatures from photoluminescence spectra measured on planar high resistivity float zone silicon wafers. Photoluminescence spectra could be detected over a large range of more than five orders of magnitude, which allowed us to determine extremely low values of the absorption coefficient in the spectral range where absorption processes are accompanied by the simultaneous absorption of up to four phonons.

Encyclopedia of Energy, 2004

Encyclopedia of Chemical Processing (Print Version), 2005

Routledge eBooks, Sep 5, 2013

Sustainability, Sep 20, 2022

This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative... more This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY

Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews, Mar 1, 2021

Building-integrated photovoltaic technology (BIPV) is a decentralised renewable energy source wit... more Building-integrated photovoltaic technology (BIPV) is a decentralised renewable energy source with a building material function. Lack of confidence in the economic viability of BIPV has become one of the critical issues in investment decisions. Therefore, there is a need to review the real economic value of recent BIPV projects to dispel the common myth of the high cost of BIPV. This paper reviews forty-five (45) BIPV projects attached to non-domestic buildings located in twelve (12) western countries between 2009 and 2018 to understand their real economic value. Levelized cost energy, net present value and discounted payback periods are estimated to identify both direct and indirect benefits of BIPV. The economic assessment revealed that projects are economically feasible when both direct and indirect are measured. Analysis further discovered that 1) curtain wall, double-skin facades, discontinuous roofs and skylights among the building application types, 2) educational buildings among the functions of non-domestic buildings and 3) c-Si among the module technologies are economically feasible performances. BIPVs are complex and unique designs with diverse economic performances. It is important to carefully select the parameters to assess the performance levels of the application before any decision is made. The study confirms that understanding the broad values facilitates the quantification of the real contribution of BIPV. The outcome of the paper assists decision-makers and policymakers in developing strategies to decide BIPV adoption.

World Scientific series in current energy issues, Apr 10, 2016