Powered By Rock – Week 7
WIND & SUN
LECTURE NOTES – 2014_PoweredbyRock_lect7_solar_wind_SML (PowerPoint)
Renewable Energy Statistics for the UK (from DECC website).
Renewables map of the UK (from DECC website)
Wind power
UK Wind Energy database (from Renewable UK website)
Neither rare nor earths (Article about our dependence on rare earth elements, from BBC News)
Developing cheaper, greener magnets (article from Ames Lab, US Dept of Energy)
Could the Dogger Bank Offshore Wind Farm provide 7.2 GW of power? (Article from Forewind project website)
UK Offshore Wind Power Programme (article by Toke (2011 on Science Direct).
Solar power
Types of solar power (from the IEA website)
The geology of photovoltaic solar power (from Bryn Mawr College).
Abengoa Solar projects, Spain (company website).
The Imperial College Solar Network.
The UK solar roadmap (DECC article from October 2013)
Nottinghamshire solar farm built in 6 weeks (BBC News article from 2011).
Perovskites – the future of solar power? (article from the Guardian).
New solar material shows its potential (article from MIT)
Perovskite is calcium titanium oxide (CaTiO3), although the term is used to describe any mineral with perovskite-type structure, so it does not have to have that chemical formula.
Could copper iodide perovskites make cheaper solar cells? (article from Phys.org)
