I simply had a dialog with a constructing contractor who makes a speciality of eco-friendly residential enhancements–in part of the world the place such a specialty is an enormous deal: Santa Barbara, California.
This was a terrific alternative to ask questions on sure house building applied sciences that appeared to have nice promise 10 or 15 years in the past, however for some cause by no means took off. Amongst these is building-integrated photovoltaics, or BIPV. As proven within the photograph above, it isn’t on the roof; it is the roof.
The guy gave me two cause for the gradual adoption (failure?) of BIPV:
1) It’s very brittle, which makes roof repairs very troublesome with out cracking different panels,, and
2) The carbon footprint related to making BIPV continues to be very excessive.
Fascinating stuff.
