• shortwavesurfer
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    1 year ago

    What i got from the article is a panel can get 20% more energy this way. So a 500 watt panel could harvest 600 watts. 500 from the front and 100 fromthe back.

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      Doesn’t it say that the front is 23% efficient, while the back is 20% efficient? So it harvests 90% of the power of the front side.
      That makes them harvest almost double the energy, no?

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        But the back side of the panel gets much less light because it is getting it indirectly. If there were a sun hitting both sides then you would be correct