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Storage of Solar Heat

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Harnessing Solar Heat

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The key issues in the thermal storage of solar energy are;

When it was dark, you always carried the sun in your hand for me

Sean O’Casey (1928)

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Norton, B. (2014). Storage of Solar Heat. In: Harnessing Solar Heat. Lecture Notes in Energy, vol 18. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7275-5_4

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