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Flexible plastic solar cells will go everywhere the sun shines, produced in long rolls, covering roofs and even windows (the cells can be made transparent).

How would transparent solar cells work? Would the light coming in be part of the <90% of the light not being converted to electricity?




I don't know, but presumably the solar cells would primarily absorb light from the invisible part of the spectrum, ie. infrared. Your cats are going to hate you for it, though (no more hot spots in the sun..).


Thankfully I don't have cats :~)... however, that does bring up a good point about some of the sunlight being converted to electricity instead of heating your house passively.


The solar cells would probably not be very efficient. So there would still be lots of heat.


The next step would be to have the solar cell also be an automatic shade: more light --> less electricity, and vice versa.


First thing I noticed, yeah.




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