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Except for third party materials and otherwise stated in the acknowledgements section, this content is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence [Tip: hold Ctrl and click a link to open it in a new tab. (Hide tip)] .

Course image: Rishi Bandopadhay in Flickr made available under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Licence.

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Video image: Publicity still of presenter Tom Dyckhoff from The Secret Life of Buildings

Activity 2 image: © Peter Lloyd

Activity 4 image: © Peter Lloyd

Activity 7 image: © Patrick - Giant Ginkgo. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike Licence http://creativecommons.org/ licenses/ by-nc-sa/ 2.0/

Figure 10 (a): © avdweb 2013

Figure 10 (b): © Montgomery County Planning Commission. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike Licence http://creativecommons.org/ licenses/ by-nc-sa/ 2.0/

Figure 10 (c): Gemasolar solar thermal plant, owned by Torresol Energy ©SENER

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