Researchers at the University of Ottawa say they have devised a method to optimize the effectiveness of solar panels, which includes incorporating artificial ground reflectors.
To study how reflective ground covers affect solar energy output, the university’s SUNLAB collaborated with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in Golden, Colo.
Research found that placing reflective surfaces under solar panels can increase their energy output by up to 4.5%.
“We found that highly reflective white surfaces can boost solar power output,” says Mandy Lewis, the paper’s lead author. “Critically, these reflectors should be placed directly under the solar panels, not between rows, to maximize this benefit.”
The project was funded by the National Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, Ontario Graduate Scholarships and the U.S. Department of Energy.
The study “Artificial Ground Reflector Size and Position Effects on Energy Yield and Economics of Single Axis Tracked Bifacial Photovoltaics” was published in Progress in Photovoltaics journal.
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The United States seems set on propelling itself backwards.
Maybe, as they say, “Hell has a special place reserved in it” for people like Thom Tillis, Republican Senator from North Carolina, who enabled Trump to rape and destroy the United States.
That was until it became clear to Tillis that he could jump ship, write a scathing book about the president, get all over mainstream news promoting it, and go on to enjoy another chapter of political success.
That we Americans are so stupid that we accept this blatant hypocrisy and criminality is sad proof that we’re not the people we were 20 years ago. Maybe what many people are saying are correct: we deserved what we got.
Here’s a short video from Elle Cordova that reminds us that science is something of a rarity in human history.
The great tyrants of history have done their best to cause the people they ruled to reject science, simply to ensure the masses are ignorant, terrified, superstitious, and thus easily controlled.
The current political administration is particularly engrossed in the rejection of science. I wonder why.
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