Showing papers on "Solar power published in 1971"
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors proposed a solar power generating system which would produce 1,000 megawatts of electricity by the thermal conversion of sunshine to produce steam, and they suggested the conversion can be done by the optical concentration of sunshine in ground collectors spread over desert regions.
Abstract: The authors propose a solar power generating system which would produce 1,000 megawatts of electricity by the thermal conversion of sunshine to produce steam. They suggest the conversion can be done by the optical concentration of sunshine in ground collectors spread over desert regions. The collection of enough solar energy for a 1,000 megawatt generating system would require a solar power “farm” covering an area 3.8 kilometers on a side. Aden B. Meinel is director of the Optical Sciences Center, University of Arizona, his wife, Marjorie Pettit Meinel, has collaborated with him in this study.
12 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the performance of solar cells after irradiation in such operating conditions had not been explored previously, and it has been established that lithium can move about rather freely in silicon, and that it complexes with radiation damage centers in such a way as to neutralize their performance-degrading effect.
5 citations