Comments on: Dull Solar Panels – a Bright Idea http://solarpanelspower.net/solar-panels/dull-solar-panels-a-bright-idea Solar Panels Can Power Your Life! Wed, 09 May 2012 17:57:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Green Blazer http://solarpanelspower.net/solar-panels/dull-solar-panels-a-bright-idea/comment-page-1#comment-1571 Green Blazer Fri, 11 Mar 2011 00:16:15 +0000 http://solarpanelspower.net/?p=333#comment-1571 Oh come on, Envi! I just read an article about how all these shiny surfaces we are littering the planet with are screwing with ecosystems by confusing light-dependent wildlife! For example, birds which predate on fish are mistaking our shiny solar panels (not to mention car surfaces) for bodies of water in which they can fish. So, I say that we have already knocked the albedo of the environment out-of-whack to a higher-than-natural value. So dull solar panels would merely be a responsible step toward correcting that. Plus, it seems to me like these panels would take 97% of the incident light upon them and turn it relatively reliably (trust me, in energy science, 25% is pretty reliable) into electricity without releasing it as heat. What's that I hear??? Less Heat Island effect??? That's what I thought. Oh come on, Envi! I just read an article about how all these shiny surfaces we are littering the planet with are screwing with ecosystems by confusing light-dependent wildlife! For example, birds which predate on fish are mistaking our shiny solar panels (not to mention car surfaces) for bodies of water in which they can fish. So, I say that we have already knocked the albedo of the environment out-of-whack to a higher-than-natural value. So dull solar panels would merely be a responsible step toward correcting that.

Plus, it seems to me like these panels would take 97% of the incident light upon them and turn it relatively reliably (trust me, in energy science, 25% is pretty reliable) into electricity without releasing it as heat. What’s that I hear??? Less Heat Island effect??? That’s what I thought.

]]> By: Spudder http://solarpanelspower.net/solar-panels/dull-solar-panels-a-bright-idea/comment-page-1#comment-525 Spudder Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:40:04 +0000 http://solarpanelspower.net/?p=333#comment-525 Hi, good people of the future. Solar panels are very good, when you live far from the grid and also cost effective in this case. But! Have you ever REALLY thought about the green issue regarding this product? First; is it recyclable and how? 2nd; imagin half a tonne of battery in every household. 3rd; are the everage people ready to do basic maintenance on the system? - hence the cost and honesty of professional servicing. What will happen to all those glass laminates in the long run? Or, we should simply sweep the issue under the carpet and leave it for our grand children to try and clean up our mess? I have over fifteen year of experience in the manufacturing process and i have panels. Carbon is 100% recyclable. Hi, good people of the future. Solar panels are very good, when you live far from the grid and also cost effective in this case. But! Have you ever REALLY thought about the green issue regarding this product? First; is it recyclable and how? 2nd; imagin half a tonne of battery in every household. 3rd; are the everage people ready to do basic maintenance on the system? – hence the cost and honesty of professional servicing. What will happen to all those glass laminates in the long run? Or, we should simply sweep the issue under the carpet and leave it for our grand children to try and clean up our mess? I have over fifteen year of experience in the manufacturing process and i have panels. Carbon is 100% recyclable.

]]> By: Envi Ronmentalist http://solarpanelspower.net/solar-panels/dull-solar-panels-a-bright-idea/comment-page-1#comment-284 Envi Ronmentalist Thu, 09 Jul 2009 00:13:41 +0000 http://solarpanelspower.net/?p=333#comment-284 Me! me! me! me! me! me! me! Just ignore the earth. Everybody who has PV panels can be oh so smug and self-righteous with their savings while ignoring the upcoming Global warming accelerator. The Earth's loss of albedo. Seems to me that to increase the Earth's albedo while photoing your voltaics is the more desired direction for research. Come on folks let's get out of the tunnel vision and maybe invent some white or transparent solar cells with a reflective background. Put your thinking-caps on boys and girls we've got to take a broader view. Me! me! me! me! me! me! me! Just ignore the earth. Everybody who has PV panels can be oh so smug and self-righteous with their savings while ignoring the upcoming Global warming accelerator. The Earth's loss of albedo. Seems to me that to increase the Earth's albedo while photoing your voltaics is the more desired direction for research. Come on folks let's get out of the tunnel vision and maybe invent some white or transparent solar cells with a reflective background. Put your thinking-caps on boys and girls we've got to take a broader view.

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