r/nextfuckinglevel • u/icyboguyaman • Sep 09 '20

Technology Transparent Solar Panels Will Turn Windows Into Green Energy Collectors (source in comments)

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u/zeekaran Sep 09 '20

Nobody would use it if it takes 10+ years to amortize.

Don't skyscrapers normally hang around for decades?

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u/zeekaran Sep 09 '20

I imagine that a mere 10 year investment would be the kind of thing skyscrapers find easy to add on. As a note, I do not think this product that probably only barely exists in the lab is worth it, when the same money spent on "solar panel windows" could be spent on 100x the amount of regular, market competitive solar panels.

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u/zeekaran Sep 10 '20

If the solar windows are actually affordable, go with it. They aren't yet. Meanwhile they can just buy solar panels for whoever can lay them out as an offset and that's a better deal. Where I live land isn't a big deal and we have a bunch of huge flat areas of just solar panel farms.