Solar and Other Renewables

The only sustainable energy resources are renewables such as solar, biomass, wind, hydroelectric, wave, tide and geothermal. The most abundant of these is solar - 165,000 terawatts of energy impinge on the earth (compared with the 14 terawatts of energy used globally at present). The main challenges in harnessing solar energy, being addressed by ND researchers, are device efficiency and cost.

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