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The best way to produce shade in the Nevada desert is with solar panels. The sky is rarely cloudy and solar just blasts all day every day here. I covered my b
by sneak 1y ago
The best way to produce shade in the Nevada desert is with solar panels.
The sky is rarely cloudy and solar just blasts all day every day here.
I covered my backyard in Vegas with ground panels and now I charge my EV off of a 100% off grid solar system. The sun provides enough energy in my small yard for 2-3x my driving needs.
- pfdietz 1y agoSolar panels can be engineered to also optimize cooling, by selectively increasing their reflectivity at wavelengths that are neither useful for electricity production nor for radiation of their waste thermal energy. https://web.stanford.edu/group/fan/publication/Li_ACSPhotonics_4_774_2017.pdf https://web.stanford.edu/group/fan/publication/Li_ACSPhotoni... "[...] we design a photonic cooler made of one- dimensional photonic films that can strongly radiate heat through its thermal emission while also significantly reflecting the solar spectrum in the sub-band-gap and ultraviolet regimes. We show that applying this photonic cooler to a solar panel can lower the cell temperature by over 5.7 °C."