Paper-Thin Solar Makes Any Surface Photovoltaic

Re:Paper-Thin Solar Makes Any Surface Photovoltaic by Retric on Thursday December 22, 2022 @10:31AM (#34094306)

The limit is 3500 kg, if you’re at 3300 kg stock then you only have 200kg to play with when retrofitting.

Also it’s 200W/m2 but camper roofs are a lot more than 1 square meter so you just cover a larger percentage of the roof with solar.

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Re:Paper-Thin Solar Makes Any Surface Photovoltaic by ajsnigrutin on Thursday December 22, 2022 @05:08PM (#34099505)

I'd rather have 5x the power and find a few kilos somewhere else to save.

If efficiencies were within a few percents.. sure.. but when we're talking about a factor of 5+, it doesn't seem to be worth it.

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Re:Paper-Thin Solar Makes Any Surface Photovoltaic by Retric on Friday December 23, 2022 @07:32AM (#34105099)

If by 5x the power you mean 1kw then your up into the 70kg/150lb range for the panels and brackets which isn’t that easy to shave.

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