Hodges' Model: Welcome to the QUAD: solar power

Hodges' model is a conceptual framework to support reflection and critical thinking. Situated, the model can help integrate all disciplines (academic and professional). Amid news items, are posts that illustrate the scope and application of the model. A bibliography and A4 template are provided in the sidebar. Welcome to the QUAD ...

Showing posts with label solar power. Show all posts
Showing posts with label solar power. Show all posts

Thursday, May 16, 2019

Kenyan-Korean ‘Solar Cow’ project wins CES Innovation Award c/o Africa Times

SELF - individual
|
INTERPERSONAL : SCIENCES
humanistic ----------------------------------------------- mechanistic
SOCIOLOGY : POLITICAL
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group - POPULATION

Child's education

Child attends school OR work?


Access to power
Light, Phones
Battery

Social utility of electricity
Parental - family decision making: social 'nudge' ...
'Solar Cow' Project: Africa Times
Communities .. 

Parental power

School attendance

Collective financial motivation



Policy


Industry - Civil Partnership

 .. em-powered

Saturday, March 07, 2015

Let More Light In - Reflection

individual
INTERPERSONAL : SCIENCES
humanistic ------------------------------------------- mechanistic
SOCIOLOGY : POLITICAL
group

'total internal reflection' 
?

tungsten oxide 
has a 
high refractive
 index
??

The researcher's cells use iron oxide and tungsten oxide to do the light-capturing. Iron oxide absorbs visible light and tungsten oxide absorbs ultraviolet. Also tungsten oxide has a high refractive index. This means that light finds it hard to escape once it is inside a piece of tungsten oxide because it is bounced back and forth by a phenomenon called total internal reflection, increasing the chance it will be absorbed. p.78.

Source:
Solar Cells: Tiny Balls of Fire, The Economist, June 28th-July 4th 2014, 411: 8893, 78-79.

Additional link:
HowTheLightGetsIn 2015
https://howthelightgetsin.org/hay