If you placed a sheet of aluminum, painted black, next to a solar panel
do you think the temperature of each would be the same?

On 8/10/2017 10:57 PM, Heinz Gehlhaar wrote:
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You have a fundamental misunderstanding about solar power: they don't generate heat, they consume solar radiation (which reduces heat, much like a body of water).
Then why is my solar panel so hot?
And why is the conversion efficiency only 10-12 percent?
That seems fundamental to me.
Soarboy

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