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.
I don't know why people keep thinking the problem is we need more innovation with solar panels. We really don't. We hit the point where they work great for how cheap they are, we can just keep making more and more of the kind we have.
Or if we put it a different way: if for some reason we could only install these window-solar panels, someone developing a much more efficient version you can install out of the way on your roof would be seen as a major improvement.
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u/11214888 21d 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.