{"id":28990,"date":"2014-02-07T08:38:06","date_gmt":"2014-02-07T15:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/?p=28990"},"modified":"2014-02-07T08:38:06","modified_gmt":"2014-02-07T15:38:06","slug":"expert-discuss-solar-industry-challenges-opportunities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/expert-discuss-solar-industry-challenges-opportunities\/","title":{"rendered":"Expert to discuss solar industry challenges, opportunities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-28991\" alt=\"Meng Tao\" src=\"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Tao_Meng.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"313\" srcset=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/402\/2014\/02\/Tao_Meng.jpg 250w, https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/402\/2014\/02\/Tao_Meng-239x300.jpg 239w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/>Meng Tao, a professor of electrical engineering for the Laboratory for Terawatt Photovoltaics at Arizona State University, kicks off NAU\u2019s spring Engineering Seminar Series with a free public lecture at 4 p.m. Friday, Feb. 14, in the Engineering Building, room 101.<\/p>\n<p>Tao will discuss the practical challenges of meeting global energy demands through the use of solar panels, including energy and raw material limitations in manufacturing current solar panels.<\/p>\n<p>He argues that without significant technological breakthroughs, the current panel technologies combined could only meet 1 percent to 2 percent of global energy demands in 2100. Tao will discuss several directions in research and development to move toward a sustainable solar industry.<\/p>\n<p>For information, email <a href=\"mailto:Sarah.Hunter@nau.edu\">Sarah.Hunter@nau.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/expert-discuss-solar-industry-challenges-opportunities\/\">Meng Tao, a professor of electrical engineering for the Laboratory for Terawatt Photovoltaics at Arizona State University, kicks off NAU\u2019s spring Engineering Seminar Series with a free public lecture at 4 p.m. Friday, Feb. 14, in the Engineering Building, room 101. Tao will discuss the practical challenges of meeting global energy demands through the use&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":28991,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-happenings"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}