UNSW SPREE 202401-10 Martin Green - The Role Solar Energy will play in our Energy Future

UNSW School of Photovoltaic & Renewable Energy Engineering
The Role Solar Energy will play in our Energy Future by Prof Green Martin
Lee Kong Chain Distinguished Professor Public Lecture - 10 Jan 2024
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IAS NTU Lee Kong Chian Distinguished Professor Public Lecture by Prof Green Martin, Millennium Technology Prize 2022; University of New South Wales.
Over the last decade, the cost of converting solar energy into electricity using solar cells has dropped very dramatically with such solar photovoltaics providing “now the cheapest source of electricity in most countries” and “now offering some of the lowest cost electricity ever seen”, according to the International Energy Agency. However, improvements are in the pipeline that some commentators believe may lead to an era of “insanely cheap” solar power, within the coming decade. The talk described the developments leading to these cost reductions as well as the pending improvements that will allow solar to reach even lower costs over the remainder of this decade. The implications for how the world’s future energy is supplied was also discussed.

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"No matter how highly mechanised and fossil fuels self-powered, fossil fuels extraction requires a number of people - as if the process is executed by hands using buckets and ropes". Today, this number is 8 billion people - working flat out 24/7 - strong. "In any system of energy, Control is what consumes energy the most. No energy store holds enough energy to extract an amount of energy equal to the total energy it stores. No system of energy can deliver sum useful energy in excess of the total energy put into constructing it. This universal truth applies to all systems. Energy, like time, flows from past to future" (2017).

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If we take the POV that the Solar Energy collection technology is in continuity with Absolute Zero-infinity reference-framing containment of Quantum-fields Conformal pulse-evolution Instrumentation, the e-Pi-i resonance bonding sync-duration analysis of Fusion-Fission Function, then the idea of a balanced metastable mass-energy-momentum Fusion-Fission Catalytic Converter of nucleation resonance sync-duration decay processes tuned for a particular type of output is a "complicated and messy", but feasible, Computational Analysis similar to Mathologer's diagramatic representation of Homer Simpson and tuned sync spin-spiral relative-timing ratio-rates. (Need we say more?) Excellent Teaching Presentation.