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Principles of Sustainable Energy Systems, Second Edition, 2nd Edition
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Principles of Sustainable Energy Systems, Second Edition, 2nd Edition

by Frank Kreith, Susan Krumdieck
August 2013
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
790 pages
30h 5m
English
CRC Press
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5
Fundamentals of Solar Radiation*
Having been admonished by the Holy Ofce [the Inquisition] entirely to abandon the
false option that the Sun was the center of the universe and immovable, and that the
Earth was not the center of the same and that it moved … I abjure …
—Galileo
5.1 Physics of the Sun and Its Energy Transport
The nature of energy generation in the sun is still an unanswered question. Spectral
measurements have conrmed the presence of nearly all the known elements in the sun.
However, 80% of the sun is hydrogen and 19% helium. Therefore, the remaining 100-plus
observed elements make up only a ...
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ISBN: 9781466556966