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Unfortunately here on earth, the sun doesn’t always shine. This means that heat from the sun is not always available. So, it will still be desirable to occasionally burn fuels for heat. Nuclear power plants are not going to provide heat for homes and coal burned for home heating is a very dirty fuel. Consequently, natural gas, propane, and heating oil are the common fuels used for home heating today and it will be desirable to preserve these fuels for heating for as long as possible.
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Fraas, L.M. (2014). Thermophotovoltaics Using Infrared Sensitive Cells. In: Low-Cost Solar Electric Power. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07530-3_11
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