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The Solar Energy Resource

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The earth rotates at an axial tilt in an elliptical orbit around the sun producing the annual variation of intensity outside the earth’s atmosphere (Lunde 1980) shown in Fig. 2.1. Beneath the atmosphere solar energy varies temporally and geographically in its

The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new

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Norton, B. (2014). The Solar Energy Resource. In: Harnessing Solar Heat. Lecture Notes in Energy, vol 18. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7275-5_2

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