PV RE and Energy Efficiency Books.

I'm going to clean this up in a bit and put some of my own suggestions here, but for now this is a collection of cuts and pastes I have nowhere else to put right now. These are books recommended by some of the users of the bbs's and RE email lists:

DC appliances and power:

"Living on twelve volts with ample power"

There is a small book, 35 pages, called "the 48-Volt Solution, Fun and Games with Four Truck Batteries" by Claude Leland. Published by Vantage Press, Inc.. ISBN:0-533-08251-4. In it he shows how to convert all kinds of things, such as crock-pot, flour mill, cream separator, refrigerator, TV antenna rotor, motor generator, table saw, LAWN MOWER, etc.

Battery Books: The following are recommended off the W&S BBS:

Handbook of Batteries, 2nd edition, David Linden, McGraw Hill. This has a fairly good flooded lead / acid section and includes all common battery types. Storage Batteries , 4th edition, 1951 - Wiley - Although old it is fairly good as flooded lead acid technology has not changed that much. You might find that in a library. The IBMA, Independent Battery Manufacturing Association publishes a monthly magazine (The battery man) and has available, for fairly reasonable costs other texts that might be of interest. Source of books

Reply-To: ev@listproc.sjsu.edu Organization: H-Power Corporation To: ev@listproc.sjsu.edu References: 1 Thanks for the Info. Joseph F Klein Sr. Process Technologist H-Power Corp. www.hpower.com "Snoblen, Tom" wrote: > First solar cells are semiconductors. They are made of multi layers of > material place on top of a substrate, the layers are very thin usually > measured in angstroms. Typical layers of a solar cell are: > > Standard crystal or amorphous solar cell > substrate - made of glass, stainless steel, or silicon > Bottom conductive metal layer(not use with SS substrate > N layer (silicon) > P layer (silicon) > Top conductive layer (clear) > Metal grid > Passivation (clear)(silicon dioxide or othe glass) > > When I was at ECD (Energy Conversion Devices) The machine for making there > solar cells was a series of ovens and vacuum chambers stretching out 80 feet > or so. At one end you would load a roll of SS and at the other end a roll > of solar cells would appear. > > Unfortunately I do not remember any thing about the cost of operation of the > machine. But other ECD > clean room facilities ran about $10k a day.

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