Addressing the terawatt challenge: Scalability in the supply of chemical elements for renewable energy

RSC Advances

Volumn 2, Issue 21, 2012, Pages 7933-7947

  Vesborg, Peter C K ^a   Jaramillo, Thomas F ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGY INFRASTRUCTURES; GLOBAL PRIMARY PRODUCTIONS; HIGH CONCENTRATION; ON CURRENTS; POSSIBLE FUTURES; POWER CONSUMED; PRIMARY SOURCES; RENEWABLE ENERGIES; SUSTAINABLE ENERGY; TERAWATT;

FOSSIL FUELS; SCALABILITY;

CHEMICAL ELEMENTS;

EID: 84867365471     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20462069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/c2ra20839c     Document Type: Review

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