Renewable Energy: Technologies, Economics, and Geopolitics

This lecture covers the technologies associated with renewable energies, advantages and disadvantages of fossil and renewable energies, environmental impacts of energy consumption, failures in energy transition, solar, wind, hydropower, geothermal energy, energy storage, resistive effects in solar cells, and the geopolitical and economic aspects of renewable energy. It also discusses the challenges and successes in energy efficiency, material requirements, costs, geopolitical implications, and the environmental impacts of renewable energy sources.