{"id":100119,"date":"2019-12-24T19:01:34","date_gmt":"2019-12-25T03:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/solar-power-from-the-dark-side-unlocked-by-a-new-formula"},"modified":"2019-12-24T19:01:34","modified_gmt":"2019-12-25T03:01:34","slug":"solar-power-from-the-dark-side-unlocked-by-a-new-formula","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/solar-power-from-the-dark-side-unlocked-by-a-new-formula","title":{"rendered":"Solar power from \u2018the dark side\u2019 unlocked by a new formula"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/solar-power-from-the-dark-side-unlocked-by-a-new-formula.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Engineers calculate the ultimate potential of next-generation solar panels<\/em><\/p>\n<p>WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. \u2014 Most of today\u2019s solar panels capture sunlight and convert it to electricity only from the side facing the sky. If the dark underside of a solar panel could also convert sunlight reflected off the ground, even more electricity might be generated.<\/p>\n<p>Double-sided solar cells are already enabling panels to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pv-magazine.com\/2017\/07\/13\/swiss-researchers-testing-planted-rooftop-areas-in-combination-with-pv-systems\/\">sit vertically<\/a> on land or rooftops and even horizontally as the <a href=\"https:\/\/lumossolar.com\/2019\/05\/solar-gas-station-canopy\/\">canopy of a gas station<\/a>, but it hasn\u2019t been known exactly how much electricity these panels could ultimately generate or the money they could save.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Engineers calculate the ultimate potential of next-generation solar panels WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. \u2014 Most of today\u2019s solar panels capture sunlight and convert it to electricity only from the side facing the sky. If the dark underside of a solar panel could also convert sunlight reflected off the ground, even more electricity might be generated. Double-sided [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-solar-power","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}