Ecological and economical advantages of efficient solar systems

AIP Conference Proceedings

Volumn 1616, Issue , 2014, Pages 317-320

  Burg, Brian R ^a   Selviaridis, Angelos ^a   Paredes, Stephan ^a   Michel, Bruno ^a  

^a IBM RESEARCH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Albedo; CPVT; Heat island; Life cycle analysis; Payback time; Photovoltaic; Solar

Indexed keywords

EID: 84957540371     PISSN: 0094243X     EISSN: 15517616     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4897086     Document Type: Conference Paper

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