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Utility Solar Thermal and Industrial Solar Processes (EME 811)


Author: Penn State University - College of Earth and Mineral Sciences
Subject: Earth and Mineral Sciences
Source: OPEN.ED @PSU
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Solar thermal energy is a vast renewable energy resource that has been harvested by human civilizations for centuries. Now as energy conversion technologies quickly develop, we look at solar thermal energy as a significant contributor to the future world's energy profile. Solar heat, when properly collected and stored, can provide cost-effective benefits to a wide array of industrial and residential applications.

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