Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Solar Thermal and Photovoltaic

I was just reading an article about somebody combining the two types of solar. Seems like deja vu, the same idea was tried a while ago. A challenge with solar voltaic is heat, and solar thermal (heating water) needs heat, so why not combine the two?

Here's the article. Waste Not, Want Not: A New Approach to Solar from the NY Times.

And now of course I can't find the older work I was thinking of. I did find one on using solar for water purification.

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