Buildings might get covered in solar panels in the near future
Today we can see a lot of innovations happening around energy generation. For the needs of today's world, we need lots of energy and imagine if we can generate all the energy with the help of clean energy instead of burning fossil fuels. Energy creation is the sector that keeps changing every year with discoveries and sees a lot of improvement every year. In the future, there will be even more innovations in energy generation.
One of the biggest challenges with solar panel implementation is that it consumes a lot of space and we have to make the land available only for solar panels and that will prevent the land from being used for other purposes. Using it on top of buildings and other places might be good but again that has its challenges.
Solar panel innovations
In the last few years we can see some great improvement in the way solar panels are manufactured and at the same time the efficiency has also improved. The size has reduced and we can extract more power from smaller panels. This is a great thing. Apart from these innovations, there have been innovations around what materials are used to create solar panels. It is still a heavily researched sector but we can find new methods. Some companies have also patented many innovations and we are yet to see them in the market.
One of the inspiring things that I saw was a solar panel implementation that acted like a sunflower plant. Along the direction of the sun, the panels move every day based on where the sun is located. This way it was able to absorb more light from the sun increasing the efficiency.
Where can we use solar panels?
It is not mandatory that we have to use solar panels only on the rooftop of a building. I'm able to see many companies creating and promoting alternative ways to install solar panels. Some panels get implemented as fences around the house that can generate electricity when exposed to sunlight. The next thing is using solar panels on top of vehicles where at least a bare minimum of energy is produced that can be used by the vehicle. Mostly these vehicles are hybrid and operate in both solar power as well as fossil fuels.
There is a big research going on in finding ways to reduce the cost of solar panels. It is believed that solar panels can be manufactured at the cost of ordinary glass. I remember reading it somewhere but mass production is not happening yet. If that happens, I'm sure all the window frames and building walls will have solar panels in it generating enormous amount of power. These days we have tall buildings and most of them are already covered with glass windows. If we can make cheaper solar panels, I'm sure we will be able to install them in our building windows and use them to generate electricity.
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I love your take on solar panel innovations. I have been trying to consider it also sometimes. I hope it becomes something most people use later in the future as a source of energy..
Wow!
The idea of having them as glasses in our windows and doors sounds so good.
I've seen smaller panels of solar which I thought the sizes are being reduced but no, they said the bigger the size, the more sun it attracts 🥲
I believe that it is necessary to reduce the costs of the technology so that its use can be possible on a massive scale, because it is not only the costs of the solar panels that need to be taken into account, but also the batteries and the entire electrical system.
It is really needed that solar energy needs to be more used nowadays in our contemporary age
A lot of people right now are installing solar in their homes immediately after they have built the house
Solar is becoming part of our day to day lives
I surely can relate to this as I come from a country with epileptic power supply. Nowadays, people have switched to the solar power alternative to generate electricity doing away with normal electricity supply. Solar is the in thing now no doubt.
Solar installation will also reduce the noise pollution in every society instead of we having to on generator all the time
The transition is already taking place. We are starting to make use of the solar energy much more and I love this actually
I love the facts that you just said the truth, a country like my new where solar energy is just a waste.