Life cycle energy demand and greenhouse gas emissions from an amonix high concentrator photovoltaic system

Conference Record of the 2006 IEEE 4th World Conference on Photovoltaic Energy Conversion, WCPEC-4

Volumn 1, Issue , 2006, Pages 628-631

  Kim, H C ^a   Fthenakis, V M ^a  

^a BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAS EMISSIONS; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; SOLAR CELLS;

ENERGY INVESTMENT;

GREENHOUSE GASES;

EID: 41749106675     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WCPEC.2006.279533     Document Type: Conference Paper

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