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The new solar energy technologies, spray-coated glass
Author: blairzhang
To date, researchers in R & D of new technologies in solar power technology, when the windows are facing the biggest obstacles is the presence of metals, an opaque material will prevent visible light into the goal, to stop the light through the glass. Metal as a connecting positive and negative materials, the elimination of metal material and a challenge. This connection is the negative electrode material is glass, solar cells to collect sunlight to generate electricity important material.
Recently, environmentally friendly, non-metallic, transparent obstruct the transparency of such compounds to replace the metal is a major breakthrough in the history. These new compounds also have a negative function of connectivity, from the solar energy collected in the glass.
The world's smallest solar cells will use solar power glass becomes possible. This small battery has been successfully used in the glass surface, researchers are developing a transparent SolarWindow technology companies.
This ultra-compact solar cell is only a quarter of the size of a grain of rice, the use of renewable environmentally friendly materials, has been successfully produce electricity. Products have been in renewable and sustainable energy in the United States Journal of Institute of Physics, the magazine published a peer-reviewed research report.
This ultra-compact with a No. 1 goes for solar cell characteristics, able to develop ultra-thin films, with only hair 1 / 1000, one tenth of microns thickness. In contrast, traditional film, the thickness of thick, about a few microns thick, and suppression of transparency. In the optoelectronic applications, such as visible window, transparency is the primary concern function. Today, there is the ultra-thin solar cells can not be used for home, office and commercial buildings in the transparent solar windows.
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Is it possible to MAGNIFY the power of energy (solar energy, for example) with itself?
Is it possible to take, for example, solar energy ‘A’ (that has already been stored) and magnify ‘A’ with further (new) solar energy (‘B’) to create more power than A and B would have if they were to just be combined normally? Sort of like a chemical reaction, perhaps?
To explain further, I would imagine that solar energy is built up to be one big energy in normal circumstances. (For lack of better way to explain.) However, would it be possible to store a certain amount of solar energy, then take some more energy from the sun and somehow take that energy and use it to increase the energy of the previously stored energy? And on and on until it’s being magnified in large amounts as you collect small amounts of energy and magnify the energy you continue to store? ….
It’s hard to explain! But I’m wondering if anyone knows if this is at all possible?
Do you think all new buildings should use solar energy as much as they can?
Solar hot water systems are good, where I used to live if the water got cold we had a switch allowing to use electricity. I think all houses should have some sort of solar system and that energy gathered and not used during the day should be fed back into the national grid with the house being credited with that power. I think this happens in Queensland?
Is this new solar dye technology the future of alternative energy?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7501476.stm
What do you think about this? Could we be seeing these solar dyes on all new buildings within 5 years? Would you be willing to put these panels on all the windows in your house? Could this technology make solar energy the most commonly used alternative energy source?
Practical solar energy collection with new roof?
In the spring, I plan to put a new roof on my house. This time, I want to use metal roofing because the risk of fire is much lower (semi-rural, wood heat, volunteer fire dept., no fire hydrants, etc.), and because the snow slides off, rather than building a heavy load that needs to be shovelled of a steep slope, etc., etc.
Do you know of any practical retro-fitting I might install to start making use of available solar energy?
exactly what size solar panel would it take to run a new single door fridge energy star fridge only.?
I’m interested in running only a new energy star single door fridge and need to know the info on solar to run only the fridge.
Hi Manda…
Yeah, I saw this and my immediate reaction was “great” – a simple product, easy to get going (no huge infrastructure required) and commercial production available within a few years…
The human eye doesn’t need anywhere near the full output of the sun to see so I see no problem in having only 10% filter through the windows.
Not sure if it will make commercial sense at a household level so may not become that common but sticking them on all those glass skyscrapers – fan-bloody-tastic!
Bit disappointed with the other two answers, though – linlyons is usually spot on but I found her response too negative; I think we need to be a little bit more optimistic that we can do something about GW even if it means now and then doing a few things that weren’t so good (as long as they don’t hurt!)
Agua gave a lot of info – not really germane to your question though… couldn’t be bothered to read all of it as I figured he was selling something so I scrolled to the bottom and… yep; he’s selling something!
So – does that make me as much of a cynic/pessimist as lyn?
If you’re thinking of solar hot water, when the roof is off, you’ll want to check the underlying rafters to make sure they’re strong enough to support the kind of thermal system you want.
If you’re thinking of solar electric, no special work is needed. There are already mounting systems designed to go on standing-seam metal roofs.
If you’re in North America, you’ll want a south-facing part of the roof, of course.
It could be worth it to contact a solar installer before changing your roof, to ask if there are any other considerations.
Yes I think that’s an excellent idea
You can magnify the sunlight on its way to a solar collector or photovoltaic cell. This would let you benefit more from the cost of the device. You can accumulate the heat from a solar collector to keep heating water to higher temperatures (within limits). You can accumulate the electricity from a photovoltaic cell in a battery. Plants accumulate the carbohydrates they produce using photosynthesis.
We don’t have a practical way to store sunlight. Combining energy to produce more energy than you started with violates laws of conservation of energy.
To measure the power consumption of an appliance I recomend using a Kill-a-Watt unit:
http://www.aurorapower.net/products/categoryid/5/list/1/level/a/productid/22.aspx
Once you know the usage of the fridge you can select an inverter and panels to meet that usage. If you have stable grid power I recommend grid tieing the inverter so you wont need batteries.
Just guessing the value for the fridge I would estimate:
**If on grid:
200w inverter with a 200W panel to run in the spring and early summer
- or -
400w inverter with two 200W panels to run year round.
**If off grid:
500W inverter with a 200W panel to run in the spring and early summer
- or -
500W inverter with two 200W panels to run in the spring and early summer
(Note that if your fridge is in a heated house you may need to have 3 or 4 panels during the winter)
If you do the off grid setup I would recommend getting a charge controller to protect your batteries: http://www.aurorapower.net/products/list/1/categoryid/13/level/a.aspx
If you need assistance sizing a system or selecting components Aurora Power & Design can help: http://www.aurorapower.net/contact-us.aspx
Hope that helps!