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Old 10-29-2013, 11:35 PM   #10 (permalink)
Ryland
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The body panels are not batteries, but are instead capacitors, denting or scratching them is an issue, it's also an issue that they are made from carbon fiber... more expensive then regular carbon fiber body panels too!

Paint on solar panels have a very short lift span, trouble with them is they haven't figured out how to keep them from breaking down in sunlight... kind of like the boat someone made out of news paper, it sure was cheap, just don't use it!

Solar windows.... yeah... clear solar panels are not real, what is real is making windows out of prisms with the solar cells perpendicular so you only see the thin edge of the cell, the windows let light in but it's kind of like having privacy glass.
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