sunflower solar panels provide electricity & heat to remote locations — designboom.com

sunflower solar panels provide electricity & heat to remote locations images courtesy of IBM research and airlight energy airlight energy and IBM research have announced plans to bring affordable sunflower-shaped solar panels that provide remote locations with electricity and heat, to the market by 2017. as a branch of airlight, dsolar’s ‘high concentration photovoltaic thermal’ (HCPVT) system concentrates the sun’s radiation 2,000 times and converts 80% of it into useful resources. the 12 kilowatts of electrical power and 20kw of heat generated is enough to supply several average homes which makes it ideal for those in isolated areas.

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