Solar panels for roofs, balconies, lawns all exist.

But why hasn’t solar panel blinds and curtains taken off?

To me it seems really good for people who live in apartments and want to get more juice from the windows.

  • Smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    13·
    2 days ago

    Flexible conductors are very expensive (source: worked in automation). If you use cheap ones they’ll fail and either the panels won’t make power, and/or you’ll have an exposed shock hazard.

    Besides, we have way more walls than windows. Fixed panels make way more sense.

    • Clocks [She/They]@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
      4·
      2 days ago

      Thanks for bringing up flexible connectors! I didn’t consider that before.

      Would blinds be better for not needing more flexible connectors, or worse?

      • Smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        4·
        2 days ago

        The whole thing would need to be flexible, AND you’d need a power-capable slew connector, which would not be cheap, even at volume.