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Bringing color to solar panels
2013-07-23 04:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Covering a roof or a façade with standard solar cells to generate electricity will change a building's original appearance -- and not always for the better. At present only dark solar panels are widely available on the market. "Not enough work has been done so far on combining photovoltaics and design elements to really do the term 'customized photovoltaics' justice," says Kevin Füchsel, project manager at the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Optics and Precision Engineering IOF in Jena...
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