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References & About us

Who we are

The project was completed by Noah Rosen, Christine Ratcliffe, Tim Reid and Julian Helfenstein. It was turned in as a group project to Professor Brian Klinkenberg and Alejandro Cervantes of the University of British Columbia's Faculty of Geography.

Acknowledgements

We gratefully thank  Professor Brian Klinkenberg, Alejandro Cervantes, and Michael More for their suggestions and help. We would also like to thank Harry Jans, who gave us permission to use his beautiful panorama images of Tibetan landscapes.


Solar Power Plant, from Wikimedia Commons.
References

The Tibetan landscape images are used with permission from Harry Jans.
http://www.jansalpines.com/index.php?page_id=22&lang=en&PHPSESSID=c0iftu1fjjbg8oal0tukrienr7

Broesamle, H et al. 2001, ‘Assessment of solar electricity potentials in North Africa based on satellite data and a geographic information system’, Solar Energy, vol. 70, issue 1, pp.1.

Desertec Foundation: Technologies, 2011. Available online from <http://www.desertec.org/en/concept/technologies/>. [December 4 2011].

Kawajiri, K, Oozeki, T & Genchi, Y 2011, ‘Effect of Temperature on PV Potential in the World’, Environmental Science and Technology, vol. 45, pp. 9030-9035.

May, N 2005, Eco-balance of a Solar Electricity Transmission from North Africa to Europe, Diploma Thesis for Durner, W and Richter, O, Faculty for Physics and Geological Sciences, Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany.

Yang, J 2011, ‘China's Energy Consumption Rises’, The Wall Street Journal. Available online from <http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704615504576171922168262078.html>. [November 6 2011].