Solar pannel question?
I understand solar power has great potential for buildings and as of now is best for streetlights, but how to make it better for buildings?
I read somewhere they’re only 25% effective, the other 75% of light bounces out
How can you make the light be transferred to electricity better and more effectively
It’s not something that can just be home remedied you would technically have to recreate the solar panel, power companies are forced to use some renewable energy, and therefore have switched their other sources such as clean nuclear to more coal based and petroleum based sources in order to offset the massive costs of upkeeping the solar fields.
As they’re extremely cost inhibitive and better left for use in emergency situations where cost makes them viable such as powering highway sign or emergency phones
It’s not something that can just be home remedied you would technically have to recreate the solar panel, power companies are forced to use some renewable energy, and therefore have switched their other sources such as clean nuclear to more coal based and petroleum based sources in order to offset the massive costs of upkeeping the solar fields.
As they’re extremely cost inhibitive and better left for use in emergency situations where cost makes them viable such as powering highway sign or emergency phones
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23 years Nuclear engineer
Given that after you subtract all the energy lost from the time a gallon of crude oil comes out of the ground and the power is transmitted to the wheels of your car the total energy from that gallon of oil at that point is about 2%. The same is true for the electricity that’s running your computer if it’s generated at a coal burning power plant. So, 25% efficiency is pretty darn good. I suspect with some tweaking the heat energy collects by the solar panels could also be used to generate power boosting the overall efficiency up another several percentage points.
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30 years ago, solar electric was only 1-2% efficient. 30 years from now, we could be looking at 50-80%.
somebody is working on it.
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if you find a way to trap the photons (photons=light) light bounces off the solar panel so try to stop the bounce whit other solar panels make it kind of 3d. good luck
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