Energy for rural development: renewable resources and alternative technologies for developing countries
- Washington: National Technical Information Service, 1976
- 306 p. ilustraciones.
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Nontechnical section and Technical section of solar energy. Direct uses of solar energy : heating, cooling, distillation, crop drying, power generation, and fotovoltaics devices. Indirect uses of solar energy : wind energy, hydropower, photosynthesis as an energy source, microbiological conversion of plant materials to liquid fuels. Other technologies : geothermal energy, energy storage.