Humans have craniums. We use it wherever we can. The advancements in tech today are elevating the innovation per day rate by a large margin. It’s mammothical. The only and the most fearsome problems we have is about the Energy of the future. As of now, we are largely exploiting the resources each second in millions of metric tonnes. Solar Energy has a future though. A lot of companies are flashing up, creating countless opportunities with Solar.
We have a new tech in town, The Transparent Solar-Power-Generating windows! It’s as cool as it sounds! They come with solar cells installed in the edges at a desired angle which allows the incident sunlight to fall upon them and generate energy! That’s basic innovation, you see.
Large mansions and commercial estates consume a lot of energy. Houses do have windows for sure. Therefore, activating the buildings with power windows will greatly help in minimizing energy consumption and alternative energy generation. These solar powered windows, produce a power of 12W. They are your Power Banks. You can charge your phone per square-metre twice a day!
This caught the eye of SolarCity, Elon Musk’s venture.
Rabobank, Netherlands’ biggest bank, is installed with 30 square-meter of these windows. Workers can simply plug in their phones to the USB port constructed within windows to charge their phones and laptops! The Netherlands vision to achieve 100% Eco-friendly Energy generations by 2050 looks one step closer with this innovation. Amsterdam is majorly using these windows in their official and public houses.
Scientists are working on to paint the windows with thin, transparent material to convert incident sunlight to infrared light, which will then be conducted to the solar cells to the edge of the windows.
The coating is predicted to be of a rare-earth metal thulium. Total reserves of thulium are as small as 100,000 tonnes. With the betterment of solar cells, the efficiency will increase too. This particularly showcases how seriously the Climate Change is! No matter what biased politicians say.
Things are changing and are not constrained to few countries. Countries are adopting green alternative energy sources, like never before. We sure are caring more and more about nature. This is awesome. My personal mindsight says that solutions can be found when commons as community realise that they play a significant role in this. That’s the upfront solution!
