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PODCAST: The future of solar energy – Dr Muriel Watt

Posted in Reflections On Science on September 17th, 2009.

Dr Muriel Watt, an Australian expert in photovoltaics and part time senior lecturer in the School of Photovoltaics and Renewable Energy Engineering, University of NSW, presented this year’s IPENZ Pickering lecture on the future of solar energy.

Click below to listen to the lecture

SOLARPART I

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PART II

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Some background

Photovoltaics, PV, or solar electricity, represent the next generation of ‘smart’ technologies which are set to change the way electricity grids operate and power is supplied in remote areas.

PV technology is developing fast with efficiencies increasing, costs decreasing and an array of new technologies emerging.

Further details here.

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