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Combined solar and cooling panels

 Solar in the middle cooling on the sides.
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If you make a solar concentrator, one that concentrates light towards a central point for either photovoltaic or solar thermal energy, you have room leftover on the sides of the light collector. You could use this room to have radiative cooling panels.

The radiative cooling panels could work better at night, storing coldness in an insulated container, then work to cool the solar panels or cool the cold side of the thermal generator during the day, increasing their efficiency.

—flireferret, Nov 22 2024

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       //you have room leftover on the sides of the light collector//   

       So ... underneath the mirrors? I'm finding this hard to picture.
—pertinax, Nov 23 2024
   

       So are we talking fresnel lenses with some kind of radiator panels on the perimeter?
—doctorremulac3, Nov 23 2024
   


 

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