Re: ENERGY: State of the Art in Photovoltaics?

From: Eugene Leitl (eugene.leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de)
Date: Wed Sep 06 2000 - 00:14:39 MDT


Michael S. Lorrey writes:

> Assuming 365 days of 10 hours of sunlight for ten years is quite a stretch,
> Spike. Even in California.... ;)

1) 10% conversion efficiency and 10 years lifetime is a very conservative
   estimate. I'm not sure whether 500 W/m^2 @ 10 h is too high or too
   low, but I would imagine slightly too low, as the solar constant is
   ~1.3 kW/m^2.

2) solar cells do not require direct sunlight to generate
   juice. diffuse daylight does nicely, especially when we're talking
   about amorphous cells.



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