David Carroll, the director of the Center for Nanotechnology and Molecular Materials in Wake Forest, announced a new solar panel system, which will convert both solar power from sunlight and sun heat in the air.
“It’s a systems approach to making your home ultra-efficient because the device collects both solar energy and heat,” he said. As described, the new solar device generate 75% more electricity than usual rooftop solar panel. The whole solar device will shave the cost of heating a home by as much as 40 percent.
What makes it special from other solar panel is, it can convert 75% of the longest wavelengths of light – infrared heat into energy, which solar panel cannot. What's more, this new device uses a fluid that flows through a roof-mounted module to collect heat from the sun.
It's a great improvement in solar energy exploitment, even though there's no picture about how the new solar device looks like. Anyway, congratulation to the developers in Wake Forest Uni., nice done!
“It’s a systems approach to making your home ultra-efficient because the device collects both solar energy and heat,” he said. As described, the new solar device generate 75% more electricity than usual rooftop solar panel. The whole solar device will shave the cost of heating a home by as much as 40 percent.
What makes it special from other solar panel is, it can convert 75% of the longest wavelengths of light – infrared heat into energy, which solar panel cannot. What's more, this new device uses a fluid that flows through a roof-mounted module to collect heat from the sun.
It's a great improvement in solar energy exploitment, even though there's no picture about how the new solar device looks like. Anyway, congratulation to the developers in Wake Forest Uni., nice done!
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