Terawatt Challenge

Smalley, R.E. Future global energy prosperity The terawatt challenge. MRS Bull. June 2005, 30, 412-417. 

In all cases, the analysis draws on the perspective of the Terawatt Challenge for Thin Film PV in terms of PV costs, efficiencies, reliability, and progress towards these goals.1 The study assumes progress in PV technologies will occur. Then the important questions to be examined are Does it matter Will PV electricity be inexpensive enough to make electrolytic H2 production practical The study will answer these in the positive. 

K. Zweibel. The terawatt challenge for thin film PV, in Thin Film Solar Cells Fabrication, Characterization and Applications, Jef Poortmans and Vladimir Archipov, eds.,... 

K. Zweibel, The Terawatt Challenge for Thin-Film PV A Work in Progress (January 2006 version). NREL Thin Film Partnership, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, (2006). 

Fig. 2. The terawatt renewable energy challenge the energy mix has to switch from the panel on the left to the panel on the right to cap CO2 levels at safe limits. Data from the International Energy Agency.

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