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Solar Power for the World
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Solar Power for the World

by Wolfgang Palz
October 2013
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
800 pages
22h 43m
English
CRC Press
Content preview from Solar Power for the World
Leadership 71
Independently, the oil company Total approached me in Paris
on the subject of CdS solar cells. I was introduced to them by my
long-time friend Bernard Devin from the CEA, France’s powerful
Atomic Energy Commission. At that time, Franc¸ois Fiatte was Total’s
Director for Diversification into solar power, coal, etc., and I became
his consultant and friend. Total wanted my advice about whether to
develop a spray process that was offered to them by the company PA
in Britain. Eventually, in 1975, a decision was made to build a plant
in El Paso employing the spray process; the US glass company Owens
Ford decided to enter into the joint venture
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ISBN: 9789814411875