I See Your Solar Driveway and Raise You a Solar Window
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I wonder what the cost and efficiency is. I wonder if the coating will make LEEDS compliance easier. My guess is that it doubles as a filter cutting out invisible light entering the glass which would, in turn, make windows better thermally.
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These are going to be a big deal if the cost/efficiency balances out.
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I love seeing these type of advancements!
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I would totally replace my house windows with these. That would be awesome. Especially my house in Texas.
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Oh wow, that's awesome!
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That is very cool.
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Now that is down right epic!
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Awesomesauce!
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Just to be clear, this isn't actually a solar panel, it's a solar concentrator. So you'd have this and a tiny little solar panel off to the side to soak it all up. Promising, but I wonder how useful it would be in real life. Still, it makes the mind wonder! Plenty of non-visible light out there, so I would think making a clear solar panel would be very possible... maybe not as efficient as a normal one, but anything would be better
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Better than nothing. Otherwise that sunlight is all wasted.
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This is a great use of otherwise wasted glass space.
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@scottalanmiller said:
Better than nothing. Otherwise that sunlight is all wasted.
Better than nothing is a silly statement. If the cost to install is so hi that it never creates a positive return it is a waste of money. There is a reason that cold fusion is not in use. It is not that we cannot do it. It is that it is too expensive to do it.
At that point you are better served to just get normal windows and save that extra money for some other more cost efficient means of capturing solar power.
I dearly do hope that this technology becomes feasible though, the potential is huge.
