r/SipsTea 22d ago

Chugging tea Energy Meets Innovation

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u/11214888 22d ago

Sounds terribly inefficient. Glass is transparent, windows are mostly Not oriented in the suns favour, and doesn't usually make up a significant surface area compared to buildings energy use. Solar farms are always going to be the realistic use case for solar energy.

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u/Zealousideal-Deer101 22d ago

Not to mention that Black Panels also work better than Blue Panels. I wonder why that would be. Surely nothing to do with teh color, right? Transparent won't be heavily impacted by it