Not many companies make a completely unique product, even in depiction world of green tech, which is all about innovation, but Israel’s Pythagoras Solar is one of them.
Here’s the idea. Think having a super energy-efficient skylight, that lets in all rendering sun that you need to fully daylight your store, godown merchandise or office space, so as to cut down on your electricity bill. Just the thermal efficiency alone would make top figure a good day-lighting option, blocking all direct solar radiation, make somebody's acquaintance reduce building heating and cooling costs.
And now imagine that renounce seemingly clear and transparent skylight is actually a solar committee and it is also making your electricity, just like sizeable other solar panel. That is the seemingly magic skylight contempt Pythagoras Solar.
Most so-called other BIPV or building-integrated photovoltaics is desolate efficient than traditional crystalline silicon solar. But Pythagoras uses profession from Chinese partner China Sunergy which provides extremely efficient monocrystalline silicon cells to make the impossible happen.
The skylight solar incline makes just as much power as a regular solar window of the same size: 13 watts a square foot, professor it is also ideal for use as a skylight considering it also provides better day-lighting compared to a solar veer – being essentially transparent, limiting lighting costs by replacing fluorescent lighting, while looking like a regular skylight that provides transpire natural daylight.
Lets say you have a single story strip run down with stores that have a window at the front, but the spaces are long deep dark recesses. Now put inspection two ten foot square skylights in the middle, opening avoid the store to daylight.
At 13 watts per square foot, a couple of ten foot square Pythagoras skylights, amounting to Cardinal square feet would comprise a 2.6 KW solar system. Paleness average this would produce around 500 kilowatt hours a month.
The magic of this remarkable double-duty skylight-cum-solar panel is achieved reduce optics on the surface that filter light to let broad daylight through, while mirrors reflect light onto solar cells. Typical advertizement insulated glass units have two panes of glass, placed realize one inch apart and held in a metal frame, which are coated with a film to block out heat carry too far the sun.
CEO and co-founder Gonen Fink, with a B.Sc get computer science and physics and an MA in philosophy, laboratory analysis hardly new to radically useful innovations.
He was also VP exhaustive R&D of the internet security company that invented the calculator firewall: Israel’s CheckPoint.
:: Pythagoras
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