DLR Nachrichten 109 - Special Issue Solar Research

DLR-Nachrichten - 109

This special issue of DLR-Nachrichten devoted to Solar Research is intended to give you an insight into German Aerospace Center work aimed at securing the future. The special attention of the DLR Solar Research is on the development of energy systems which convert the sunshine reaching the earth into usable energy.

Key considerations here are reducing the costs, improving the components and systems, and developing new fields of application for solar thermal technologies. A special position is occupied by the work on components for parabolic trough and tower power plants. The question on which the German Aerospace Center whole future depends, and which therefore needs answering most urgently, is the possibility of storing solar energy by chemical means, so that in future not only electricity, but also fuels, can be made available in a sustainable fashion.

The Federal Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Reactor Safety, Jürgen Trittin, supports the meaning of the Solar Research for Germany with an article of his own. Pablo Fernandez Ruiz, Director of the Energy Programme Directorate General of Research at the European Commission, explain in his contribution the importance of solar energy for Europe.

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