US scientists have developed a way to remove snow and ice from solar panels at a much faster rate than conventional approaches. It is based on a glass coating on a film with high optical transparency and superhydrophobicity.Scientists from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have developed a multifunctional coating material to remove snow, frost and ice from PV modules by using "pulsed Joule heating," which is the physical effect by which the passage of current through an electrical conductor produces thermal energy. Compared to Joule heating alone, which would be too energy-dependent ...Den vollständigen Artikel lesen ...
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