Explores spacecraft electrical power sources, including solar panels, batteries, fuel cells, and radioisotope generators, with examples from past space missions.
Explores solar energy capture, storage, and conversion into electricity, discussing photovoltaic and thermal systems, market trends, and future potential.
Explores solar energy conversion devices, thermal transport basics, solar thermal collectors, semiconductors, electrochemistry, and concentrated solar power.
Explores charging electric vehicles with solar power from the owner's roof, showing the potential to cover a significant portion of home charging demand.
Covers the basics of energy states in matter, thermal transport, and solar systems, emphasizing the importance of electrochemistry in solar energy applications.
Explores the fabrication, testing, and integration of PV modules, including failure modes, detection methods, and the most efficient solar panels in 2022.
Explores the fundamentals and applications of solar energy, covering characteristics, optics, semiconductor physics, electrochemistry, and thermochemistry.
Covers solar energy characteristics, thermal transport basics, solar thermal collectors, and electrochemistry labs, emphasizing solar fuels and electrochemistry.
Introduces the EPFL Open Science Workshop on Solar Fuels Standards and Benchmarking, emphasizing the principles of open science data management and the creation of the Solar Fuels Database.