En Exil; Quatre Mois Aupres de Monseigneur Le Duc D'Orleans a Bord Du Yacht Maroussia (English, French, Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: IV DISCUSSION The panel membership included a wide spectrum of experience with solar energy research, developments, and applications. During the deliberations, a number of generalizations relating to solar processes, their development and application became clear. Of these, questions of the nature and extent of energy needs in developing countries were important enough to be treated separately in Chapter II and the Appendices. This chapter deals with several other general considerations that, in addition to the scientific and engineering aspects, lead to the recommendations and conclusions. The developing countries, from an energy need/use/supply point of view, represent wide differences in living style and in the needs of village communities, cities, nomadic people, remote industrial towns, schools and hospitals, and industry. Physical situations, including climate, topography, and natural resources, are highly variable. Beyond these challenges, developing countries present problems of logistics; for example, in the rural areas where much of the need for energy exists people are scattered, facilities for transport are poor, and communications are difficult. People's skills and their levels of education vary. Clearly, no single description or set of criteria can be applied to these countries; corresponding variations in solutions to their energy problems may be expected. Further, there are degrees of development, which can be expressed by such indices as per capita energy consumption or per capita production. The degree of development affects the desires of people for energy or its products, their willingness and ability to invest in capital-intensive solar processes to obtain benefits therefrom, and the extent to which education is required to train users of solar pr...