In any event, it’s good to know that research into advanced “green energy” production capability is continuing in spite of the chaos that has become rampant in the political realm with all of the denial of the problem, finger pointing about “Solyndra” type fiascoes and the childish polarity that defines the parties these days. 

Regardless, I remain buoyed about the long term outlook providing that we actually develop the “alternatives” presently available as quickly as possible. The main issue here remains being able to abandon First coal and then petroleum as we continue to search for greater efficiency in our developing “New Energy Paradigm”. Logic dictates that we accomplish this task or risk some truly catastrophic consequences.

What portion of the solar NRG is in the band converted by panels (pn%) and panel eff (pe%)

What portion of the NRG is in the near infrared (rn%) and coating eff (re%)

Also remember that the solar panel emits most of the NRG it doesn’t convert back out as infrared, but lets ignore that but it would increase the amount to infrared radition that the coating could convert.

So energey produced by panel is pn*pe*NRG
energy produced by coating is rn*re*NRG.

So depending on the rn verse pn they may in fact be close.