Solar shingles


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Solar shingles are an incredible breakthrough in the solar energy market. They appear to be regular shingles but they contain thin film photovoltaic cells which harness solar power. These shingles are not only attractive but they are extremely powerful. They are more effective than solar panels because of the incredible amount of engineering that has gone into their design.

 

Thu Feb 14

Solar Power: New World Record For Solar-to-grid Conversion Efficiency Set

On a perfect New Mexico winter day — with the sky almost 10 percent brighter than usual — Sandia National Laboratories and Stirling Energy Systems (SES) set a new solar-to-grid system conversion efficiency record by achieving a 31.25 percent net efficiency rate. The old 1984 record of 29.4 percent was toppled Jan. 31 on SES’s “Serial #3” solar dish Stirling system at Sandia’s National Solar Thermal Test Facility.

Source: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/02/080213172955.htm

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