Well that’s clearly nonsense. I think the highest efficiency ever recorded for a solar panel was 2.4% so 95% is definitely not right.
What they probably mean is 95% of the efficiency of a black solar cell. I.e. you don’t lose too much just to keep the HOA happy. Although black slate roof tiles are actually a thing as well.
95% performance of regular cells or 95% performance of turning light into electricity? It sounds like the latter but it can only be the former.
All this and more, for the low low price of actually reading the article:
It enables complex visual patterns while also retaining approximately 95 percent of the power output of an uncoated module.
Yeah, that’s a bit of a misleading headline.
Yea. 95% efficient panel is Nobel prize level of story, making it look like a roofing tile would not even be a bullet point in the story
It’s also a physical impossibility iirc
i want a solar array infused with an LED array so that i can make my roof a giant compass, temperature, and clock for planes and helicopters at night. And I want my roof to flash QR codes on my roof to NGGYUNGLYG pilots. If we gonna lose the night sky to satellites i’m gonna need a bigger screen, Pete.
How about panels with RGB led backlight? Isn’t RGB supposed to be on everything now?
*NGGYUNGLYD, you mean?
Get panels made from material with a direct band gap like GaAs.
LEDs can work a bad solar panels.
And the use case is only for visual appeal? Good for those who need that. Probably can add advertisement on it to make it cheaper? I’m fine with normal looking one. Maybe it is beneficial, as it might reduce the performance at first but might keep temperatures lower and so increases efficiency again? Solar power is just great and it should get to a point where there is no more question about if it is worth it and will just get added to every roof that gets sun.
There are plenty of people who seem to only manage to conjure up “but they’re ugly” as reasons to not have panels and policy supporting their adoption
Sometimes it’s worth something existing simply to reduce the arguments against it
A lot of people take pride in the appearance of their house, and solar panels could totally alter the appearance of a house, especially one designed in a particular architectural style.
Yeah, make it look cooler. Solar panels still look like fancy future tech to me. I’m always reminded of the ISS. So I stand by it, they just look cool.
If they can find a way to make the panels usable and still have aesthetic appeal then they could be used for signage and shit too.
While I don’t say yay more signage I do say yay more solar, so like a lose-win
The solar would be used to power the signage at night.
But it would also be more easily scavengeable…
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