Comments on: One Step Closer to Invisible Solar Cells in Our Windows

By: Solar Power Windows Fast Approaching Commercial Production | CleanTechnica

Solar Power Windows Fast Approaching Commercial Production | CleanTechnica — Fri, 17 May 2013 11:12:31 +0000

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By: Surinder Pal Singh Sabharwal

Surinder Pal Singh Sabharwal — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 05:59:00 +0000

The super thin solar cells layered onto glass will save huge amount of cell material. I wonder if this technology combined with printable solar cells with suitable substrates can work wonders?

By: sabkon wells

sabkon wells — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 12:02:00 +0000

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By: Ronald Brak

Ronald Brak — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 01:36:00 +0000

At first I wasn’t impressed by PV windows, I thought the roof seemed a more logical place for PV, but then I realised a couple of things. In some places in the world a square metre of south facing window gets more sunshine than a square metre of flat roof and PV glass could have incredibly low installation costs for large buildings with lots of glass panels. After all, the cost of the glass would have to be paid for anyway, as would the cost of paying someone to install it. The only extra cost would be the electrical connections and the PVing process itself. And I guess shipping costs too if the PV glass comes from further away than the plain glass that would have been used.

By: Ghostdawg

Ghostdawg — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 00:01:00 +0000

Does anyone know how efficient this new sample is? I hope they can get the efficiency up to an acceptable level. Even at 5% efficiency, which is very low, this could be a game-changer.

This could be the enabling technology to finally realize the promise of Solar Skyscrapers.

Create a manufacturing process/tool which can apply the transparent cells and wiring directly to structural glass, and you have a machine which basically prints money.

By: sleipner

sleipner — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 20:05:00 +0000

I’d think this would be great for a combo power / hot water heating system, put glass on the top then water or coolant below it in heat absorptive tubing. If you coat the whole roof with it, that might help reduce air conditioning too since the heat would be wicked away towards your hot water heater or pool…

By: Joy John

Joy John — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 15:35:00 +0000

A cooling glass…..!!!