Umarov G.Ya., Yershov A.A. Solar Energy

Washington: NASA, 1975. — 51 p.Sourse: Translation of Solnechnaya Energetika Moscow, "Znaniye" Press, 1974 (Novoye v zhizni, nauke i tekhnike. Seriya "Nauka o Zemle," No. 1/1974), — 64 p.
Water pumps, solar power stations, air conditioners, fresh-water stills, "solar homes," solar cookers, fruit driers, devices for low temperature steaming of reinforced concrete members, "solar refrigerators," solar hothouses, welding and melting of metals presents a far from complete list of the devices and areas of the possible broad use of solar energy. In the Ninth Five-Year Plan, the country's first plant of solar equipment Is to be built in the Uzbek city of Bukhara for the series production of several of these products designed by Soviet scientists. The authors of the booklet also tell about longer-range prospects for mastering solar energy - one of the most important sources of renewable kinds of energy.