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Nowadays, the world population is growing faster than ever and the standards of living are rapidly increasing too, the combination of these two factors lead to global needs in energy higher and higher. Besides, fossil energies have never been so close to exhaustion.

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Arcos-Vargas, Á., Riviere, L. (2019). Introduction. In: Grid Parity and Carbon Footprint. SpringerBriefs in Energy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-06064-0_1

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