The Energy Disruption Triangle : Three Sectors That Will Change How We Generate and Use Energy

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Acknowledgments -- About the Author -- Section 1 The US Solar Build Out: Disrupting Energy Supplies -- Chapter 1 The History of Solar Energy -- The Magic of the Photovoltaic Effect -- The New Millennium Ushers in Renewable Energy -- Notes -- Chapter 2 The Workings of a Modern Solar Energy System -- How Polycrystalline Silicon Solar Cells Work -- Solar Cell Manufacturing Process -- Solar Cell and Module Efficiencies -- Solar Panel Manufacturing -- The Plunging Cost of Solar -- Notes -- Chapter 3 Is a Solar System Right for You? -- What Are Your Energy Requirements? -- What Is Your Daily Energy Coverage Target? -- How Much Sunlight Does Your Area Receive? -- Calculating Your System Size -- Basic System Design -- Off the Grid -- Determining If Solar Makes Sense for You -- Can You Do It Yourself? -- Note -- Chapter 4 Utility‐Scale Solar Takes Off -- The Cost of Solar Plummets -- What Is Utility‐Scale Solar? -- The History of Utility‐Scale -- Corporate America Goes All‐in on Solar Deployment -- The Current State of Utility‐Scale -- Utility‐Scale's Future -- Notes -- Chapter 5 What's Ahead for Solar Energy -- Solar Growth, Smashing Records -- The Grand Compromise -- Solar Energy Under Trump -- San Francisco Breaks New Ground -- You Can't Put the Solar Genie Back in the Bottle -- The Community Solar Garden Model -- The Global Growth of Solar -- A New Look for Solar: Building‐Integrated Photovoltaics -- The Future of Solar Cell Technology -- Solar Energy: Disrupting How We Generate Electricity -- Notes -- Section 2 Electric Vehicles: Disrupting Transportation -- Chapter 6 The History of Electric Vehicles -- The History of Self‐propelled Vehicles -- The Nineteenth‐Century EV Disruption -- Notes -- Chapter 7 Henney's Kilowatt and GM's EV1: Ahead of Their Time.