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Vishwanath Haily Dalvi, Sudhir V. Panse, Jyeshtharaj B. Joshi (2015). Solar thermal technologies as a bridge from fossil fuels to renewables. Nature Climate Change, 5(11), 1007-1013. https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate2717
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