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Solar Hot Water Pergolas: Solar thermal pergolas with flat-plate hot water solar collectors can be adjacent to buildings with short insulated distribution, supported on naturally round Black Locust wood columns, forming pleasant semi-shaded garden patio areas. |
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Heliostats and PV Pergolas: Building integrated two-axis tracking (azimuth-elevation photovoltaics (PV), and heliostat reflectors for process heat solar thermal applications like cooling, can be supported on pergola structures above roof terraces with Vierendeel type engineered frames. |
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PV on Used Wind Turbine Blades: Many wind farm rotor blades after the guarantee period (~20 years) may be replaced. An approach is to attach PV on used fiberglass blades for semi-shade pergola structures with two blade units bolted together with a splice pipe.
"... I see nothing technically wrong with ...using discarded wind turbine blades as structures for supporting solar panels..." Carlin Palmer, NREL, 7-20-05 |
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PV (photovoltaic) Solar Panels on Used Wind Blades |
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