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The continued reliance on fossil fuels for energy, although cheap, is just not sustainable. Fossil fuels have very limited reserves and cannot be expected to last indefinitely. Besides, the process involved in producing energy from fossil fuels releases harmful carbon emissions into the atmosphere resulting in a greenhouse effect and consequently global warming with disastrous effects on climate change. This makes it imperative to seek alternative energy sources which are renewable i.e. in constant supply as well as clean and do not cause harmful effects on climate or cause pollution. Alternative energy sources such as solar and hydrogen, although both clean and renewable, do have their limitations, but this study demonstrates that these challenges can be overcome by effectively combining these two energy sources so that the one complements the other in a way that is workable in a combined system which can meet the energy requirements of modern technologies such as an industrial mobile robot.
The author is a candidate for a PhD degree in Engineering in the Mechanical Department, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
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Sulaiman, A., Inambao, F., Bright, G. (2015). Solar-Hydrogen Energy: An Effective Combination of Two Alternative Energy Sources That Can Meet the Energy Requirements of Mobile Robots. In: Kim, JH., Yang, W., Jo, J., Sincak, P., Myung, H. (eds) Robot Intelligence Technology and Applications 3. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 345. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16841-8_74
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