I think they prefer lhamas over solar car in a top of a mountain.
But I'm curious to know if flexible solar panels, like Sunpower, have quite worse heat dissipation then heavy solid solar panels.
Supose we would add SUnpower flexible solar cells to a DIY electric car, how would we deal to try get a good heat dissipation for the cells ?
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Originally Posted by redpoint5
Correct. Generally the colder the panel, the more efficient it generates electricity.
The best environment would be atop a high desert mountain near the equator.
I've always wondered how solar panels are cooled in space considering there is no air to transfer the heat. The only way it can reject heat is to radiate it or to conduct it to something else that then radiates away the heat. |