See-Through Solar Is Tomorrow’s Threat to Oil

Re:See-Through Solar Is Tomorrow’s Threat to Oil by ogrisel on Monday March 23, 2015 @09:51AM (#9250840)

They don't speak about the angles (vertical windows vs horizontal roofs) and how much can this impact the energy efficiency in practice.

Presumably it's good to have some vertical panels in a mix to produce energy in the late afternoon when the sun is low but I wonder if there is any quantified study available that would highlight whether or not this is worth the investment.

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Re:See-Through Solar Is Tomorrow’s Threat to Oil by strommen on Monday March 23, 2015 @09:58AM (#9250880)

This isn't related to the clear solar panels from the article, but there's been significant research on this for traditional solar panels as well as solar concentrators.

Bottom line is, the mix of panels makes sense for northern cities (e.g. Albany) but not middle (e.g. St. Louis) or southern (e.g. San Diego).

There's a great writeup with links to the raw data at http://physics.ucsd.edu/do-the-math/2012/08/solar-data-treas... (this entire blog is amazing).

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Re:See-Through Solar Is Tomorrow’s Threat to Oil by jndetlefsen on Monday March 23, 2015 @10:12AM (#9250963)

gives me a rough idea how big your world is.

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Re:See-Through Solar Is Tomorrow’s Threat to Oil by joss82 on Monday March 23, 2015 @09:54AM (#9250855)

Absolutely. This reads like PR article to me.

Or maybe I've read the submarine [1] too much.

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html

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