and the Bright Future of Solar Electricity from Photovoltaics
and the Bright Future of Solar Electricity from Photovoltaics
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10.1002/0470014008.ch1
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2005-01
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S. Hegedus;A. Luque
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作者：
S. Hegedus;A. Luque
恭喜你！你正在阅读一本关于一项技术的书，这项技术改变了我们对能源的看法。太阳能发电，也被称为光伏发电（PV），自20世纪70年代以来，人类可以在不燃烧化石燃料（煤，石油或天然气）或产生核裂变反应的情况下获得相当大一部分电力。光化学可以帮助我们避免与我们目前的电力生产技术相关的大多数威胁，并且还有许多其他好处。光化学已经表明，它可以为人类发电，适用于广泛的应用，规模，气候和地理位置。光伏发电可以为一位居住在100公里外的农村家庭主妇带来电力，她的家庭距离她的国家最近的电网连接有100年的时间，从而使她的家庭能够使用干净的电灯而不是煤油灯，收听收音机，并运行缝纫机以获得额外的收入。或者，光电转换器可以为山区的远程发射站提供电力，从而实现更好的通信，而无需建造道路为其发电机提供柴油燃料。它可以帮助洛杉矶、东京或马德里的一家主要电力公司在炎热的夏季下午空调全时工作时满足其峰值负荷。它使家庭和企业的能源供应和安全性达到了一个新的水平，而光电子技术已经为绕地球轨道运行的卫星或飞往火星的卫星提供了30多年的动力。
Congratulations! You are reading a book about a technology that has changed the way we think about energy. Solar electricity, also known as photovoltaics (PV), has shown since the 1970s that the human race can get a substantial portion of its electrical power without burning fossil fuels (coal, oil or natural gas) or creating nuclear fission reactions. Photovoltaics helps us avoid most of the threats associated with our present techniques of electricity production and also has many other benefits. Photovoltaics has shown that it can generate electricity for the human race for a wide range of applications, scales, climates, and geographic locations. Photovoltaics can bring electricity to a rural homemaker who lives 100 kilometers and 100 years away from the nearest electric grid connection in her country, thus allowing her family to have clean, electric lights instead of kerosene lamps, to listen to a radio, and to run a sewing machine for additional income. Or, photovoltaics can provide electricity to remote transmitter stations in the mountains allowing better communication without building a road to deliver diesel fuel for its generator. It can help a major electric utility in Los Angeles, Tokyo, or Madrid to meet its peak load on hot summer afternoons when air conditioners are working full time. It allows homes and businesses a new level of guaranteed energy availability and security, and photovoltaics has been powering satellites orbiting the Earth or flying to Mars for over 30 years.