Comment on Europeans are making the most of cheap solar panels – by creating green garden fences
rainwall@piefed.social 3 weeks agoMost of these fence panels are bi-facial, i.e they have panels on both sides. They catch light reflected from the ground/snow/etc. They cost a bit more than single pane panels, but not a lot more. Like 15-20%.
You dont get nearly double the power, but they tend to work a bit better then single panels facing the sun because solar panel efficeny degrades with heat. When the sun is at its strongest, traditional roof mount panels take a significant efficiency hit. Because bifocal labels are generally positioned more flexibly, they have much better cooling that compensates for their bad angle.
Hard disagree about vandalism. You will likely never have an issue, and even then the individual panels aren’t that expensive to replace. A wood fence would likely cost more to cover the same surface area of one 7ft x4 ft panel.
eleitl@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Again, you build a public-sidewalk-facing solar module fence, and see how it fares. You’re way mismodeling the incentive and motivation of the human primate to fuck with things just because they’re there and within reach.