{"id":25,"date":"2008-09-07T23:53:33","date_gmt":"2008-09-08T06:53:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geniusblog.zokul.com\/2008\/09\/07\/mirrors-for-solar-panels\/"},"modified":"2012-11-11T18:46:37","modified_gmt":"2012-11-12T01:46:37","slug":"mirrors-for-solar-panels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zokul.com\/zokulblog\/?p=25","title":{"rendered":"mirrors for solar panels?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>i don&#8217;t know how much sun a regular panel can take before it gets damaged, i&#8217;m sure there&#8217;s a limit due to the heat and UV etc rays (breakdown the material?) &#8230; but what about mirrors that tilt and shuffle more sunlight on the panel? at noon the mirrors would be turned away to avoid overload, later in the day you get 2 or 3 times the light, so the power output stays the same (at max hopefully) till late in the day<\/p>\n<p>that way you get more max peak hours out of one panel, and mirrors are soo much cheaper (though not 100% effective). besides one could get even peak power on a cloudy day with all light on the panel?<\/p>\n<p>there are companies that built lenses (e.g. fresnel) for panels to get more power per sqft, but i think a plain old mirror is cheaper to make &#8211; except the tracking might be more $<\/p>\n<p>think of those old cardboard box type thingys that are coated with aluminum foil and wrap around your face to give you a really good tan!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>i don&#8217;t know how much sun a regular panel can take before it gets damaged, i&#8217;m sure there&#8217;s a limit due to the heat and UV etc rays (breakdown the material?) &#8230; but what about mirrors that tilt and shuffle more sunlight on the panel? at noon the mirrors would be turned away to avoid [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-solar-cng-and-electrons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zokul.com\/zokulblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zokul.com\/zokulblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zokul.com\/zokulblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zokul.com\/zokulblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zokul.com\/zokulblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.zokul.com\/zokulblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":164,"href":"http:\/\/www.zokul.com\/zokulblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions\/164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zokul.com\/zokulblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zokul.com\/zokulblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zokul.com\/zokulblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}