Comments on: Solar panel efficiency

By: Burhan

Burhan — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 13:55:10 +0000

I have yet to find a solar panel that will give 20% efficiency. As a matter of fact I have yet to find cos that will consistently give 15~17% of efficiency. I think solar research has to go a long way before it becomes commercially available at acceptable rates.

By: Zach M

Zach M — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 22:43:42 +0000

Everyone that has commented so far, and the author himself, need to learn to use Google properly to dispel their crackpot theories, faulty logic, and get advice based on real facts. And when you find results that back up your opinion, look at the opposing arguments to see if they seem more rational, authentic, and fact-based.
I somehow stumbled upon the url of stupid, one of the many spreading disinformation through spectacle and willful ignorance. Will (no.7) is partially right, but sadly all the others are fools, apparently incapable of skeptical independent research. 2 smart comments for 6 dumb ones is a bad ratio… doesn’t bode well for humanity.

By: Will

Will — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 20:51:08 +0000

I think the author is just making this stuff up. I don’t think there is a single commercially available solar panel that has a 20% efficiency and anything that got 40% is strictly development.

By: Ass McGuinty

Ass McGuinty — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:34:56 +0000

I think that solar energy could be useful at night. I don’t think that anyone has yet considered the possibilities and potential of a system that is used for 24 hours. If we were to install lunar panels alongside solar panels, I think we could make the whole process more cost-efficient for all.

Booyah!

By: Nat Rydberg

Nat Rydberg — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 20:26:03 +0000

In regard to the paragraph about the MIT research, it makes no sense.
Who wrote it? Whoever that person is would make a terrific editor for Alice in Wonderland.

Next, the Idaho research: again, who writes this nonsense? Does the writer (or the editor) understand what a capacitor does? No, from the article. What they need in Idaho is a diode that can switch efficiently at infrared frequencies. That is somewhere in the soft X-rays end! Then they can use a capacitor.

Such a diode, which doesn’t exist yet, is no mean little bugger to invent, let alone to make it operate efficiently.

Regards

By: Xu QuanWei

Xu QuanWei — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 06:07:30 +0000

I agree, and i’m also looking for more informations about solar panel and the application for the air conditioning on board the ship. I live in Singapore now. Thank you and I appreciate if you send me something about it. ^_^

By: Herman

Herman — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:18:24 +0000

I agree, and i’m looking for more information about solar panel and the application for the air conditioning. I live in Miami FL. and i need some information thank you and appreciete if you send me something

By: Graham Tarr

Graham Tarr — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 11:07:27 +0000

To the extent that solar panels absorb more solar radiation than the surface on which they are placed was previously absorbing, they must in principle increase, not decrease, global warming. In the limit, if the whole earth’s surface were covered in solar panels, there would be a fast global warming runaway.

A small point, but if there were a choice between a solar panel and another heating system which used solar energy which had already been absorbed in the past – like fossil fuels – but in a way that did not emit carbon, then the latter should be preferred.

By: David Martin

David Martin — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 14:31:53 +0000

I am very tired of companies promoting products that are years out in development or have yet to be close to providing any form of economical mass production. All this is doing to the uneducated average American is keeping them on the hook for another number of years WAITING for something that may or may not happen. It is good for venture capital envestors but not good for the american economy or our use of foreign oil. Although they are not perfect we need to stop hiping and start installing solar panels on every house in America,,, just like the Germans are doing.