
Chapter 42
High Efficiency Photovoltaics for a
Sustainable World
Antonio Luque
Instituto de Energ
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ıa Solar, Universidad Polit
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ecnica de Madrid, Spain
42.1 Introduction
The energy consumption of Mankind, with its consequential waste,
has to increase enormously when in few decades the consumption
patterns of more than two billion inhabitants (China, India, etc.)
adopt the consumption patterns of the developed world. The only
solution can be the use of renewable energy.
From the Sun, the Earth receives a power of about 10,000 times
higher than the present consumption of Mankind. It is the only
renewable source of energy big enough to support human activity ...