Optical Transfer of Heat with Electrical and Light Output (OTHELLO)

随着对清洁、可靠和负担得起的能源的需求迅速增长，在阳光充足的地方应用太阳能光谱的能力变得越来越重要。通过将薄膜光伏(PV)和太阳能光学的宝贵未开发优势结合起来，我们可以利用光伏未使用的频谱部分实现电力和高温热的联合发电，而不会与现有产品不同，牺牲仅用于光伏的发电水平。光学元件产生的温度足够高，可以有效地驱动空调、制冷甚至烹饪。由于热部件可以以很少的额外成本制造，这种方法是经济的，即使没有增加每平方米有用能量的好处。高层建筑在这方面尤其具有挑战性，但我们的系统可以设计为在直射阳光的墙壁上经济地生产能量。这使得在夏季提供制冷、在冬季提供供暖和在任何时候提供制冷成为可能，从而使太阳能电池板的大小能够达到最大负荷，并在建筑中需要它们的地方提供这些服务，无论在哪里市场都能对更好的生活水平的无情需求做出反应，这是一个节省空间和城市友好的解决方案。

With demand for clean, reliable and affordable energy rapidly growing, the ability to apply the solar spectrum wherever sunlight is available becomes ever more important. By combining valuable unexploited strengths of thin film Photovoltaics (PV) and solar optics we co-generate electricity and high temperature heat with the part of the spectrum not used by PV, without sacrificing the level of electricity generation for PV alone, unlike existing products. The optics generates high enough temperatures to efficiently drive air conditioning, refrigeration, and even cooking. As the thermal part can be fabricated at little extra cost this approach is economic even without the benefits of increasing useful energy per square metre. High-rise buildings are particularly challenging in this respect but our system can be designed for economic production of energy on walls receiving direct sunlight. This makes it possible to provide cooling in Summer, heating in winter and refrigeration at any time, allowing the panels to be sized for maximum load and offering these services at the point where they are needed in the building, a space efficient and city friendly solution wherever the markets can respond to the relentless demand for better living standards.