
Chapter 35
On the International Call for
Photovoltaics of 2008
Daniel Lincot
CNRS, Institute of Research and Development of Photovoltaic Energy (IRDEP),
(Joint between CNRS-Chimie Paristech) and EDF, 6 Quai Watier, 78401 Chatou, France
There was no doubt that solar energy is immense and that it
represents thousands time the whole energy consumption by
humankind, that only one hour of solar energy would be able to
cover one year of the world’s energy demand, but in the years
2000, when the discussions about climate change and fossil fuel
exhaustion started to become more and more important, it was
still considered as a dream or as an option for the next ...