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，在任何有阳光的地方应用太阳能光谱的能力变得越来越重要。通过结合薄膜光伏（PV）和太阳能光学的宝贵的未开发优势，我们与光伏未使用的部分光谱共同发电和高温热，而不像现有产品那样牺牲光伏发电的水平。这种光学元件能产生足够高的温度，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，即使没有增加每平方米有用能量的好处，这种方法也是经济的。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接受阳光直射的墙壁上经济地生产能源。这使得它可以在夏季提供冷却，在冬季提供加热，并在任何时候提供制冷，允许面板的最大负载大小，并在建筑物需要的地方提供这些服务，这是一个空间高效和城市友好的解决方案，无论市场如何应对对更高生活水平的不断需求。

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.