Renewable Energy: Rapidly Maturing Technology for the 21st Century

Journal of Propulsion and Power

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 163-174

  Touryan, K J ^a  

^a NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SOCIAL ASPECTS; TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING;

HYBRID ENERGY SYSTEMS;

RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES;

EID: 0033097459     PISSN: 07484658     EISSN: 15333876     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/2.5437     Document Type: Article

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