Solar energy: Renewable energy and the environment

Solar Energy: Renewable Energy and the Environment

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1-337

  Foster, Robert ^a   Ghassemi, Majid ^b   Cota, Alma ^c  

^a NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b U S DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE CIUDAD JUÁREZ   (Mexico)

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