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To flip this into a potential solution to a wider problem-- global thermal balance-- combine solar panels with radiative cooling. https://www.sciencedirect.com
by gsf_emergency_2 1y ago
To flip this into a potential solution to a wider problem-- global thermal balance-- combine solar panels with radiative cooling.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589004224000270 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S258900422...
https://www.pv-magazine.com/2025/01/13/daytime-radiative-cooling-tech-for-solar-panels/ https://www.pv-magazine.com/2025/01/13/daytime-radiative-coo...
- pfdietz 1y agohttps://web.stanford.edu/group/fan/publication/Li_ACSPhotonics_4_774_2017.pdf https://web.stanford.edu/group/fan/publication/Li_ACSPhotoni...
- gsf_emergency_2 1y agoAh yes, a paper from Fan Shanhui's group at Stanford, which kicked off the whole business. Should have linked that instead! This is 5.7 deg (using metasurfaces to selectively reflect reflect absorb different wavelengths) compared to a less fancy 4.9 deg from their seminal paper (2014) https://www.nature.com/articles/nature13883 https://www.nature.com/articles/nature13883 Maybe comparable cooling can be achieved with even cheaper techniques..?
- pfdietz 1y agoThe interesting implication is that PV has more upside growth potential than nuclear, against the ultimate limit of global thermal pollution.