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Old 11-26-2008, 12:02 AM   #14 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Christ View Post
You mean by placing the PV inside the car (EV example) and allowing the mirrors to track the sun so there is always a direct light source on the PV, and the heat from the light going through the window heating the inside of the car?

Could you sketch an example layout?
that would work in the winter, but not so well in the summer, no, my idea is to have a heat exchanger on the back side of the panel and have it on the roof, in the summer that heat would be piped to the radiator to keep the pv cooler, in the winter it would go right to the engine block to keep the engine warmer, electricity would keep the battery toped off, this would work because only 15-20% of the energy in light is turned in to electricity in a PV, most of what is left is heat, some of it bounces off of course (more the case if the PV was behind the windshild).
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