Why Skyscrapers Should Be Solar Farms

Let's re-think solar farms.

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[AidanEyewitness]

You forgot to mention the UK’s first major solar project on a tall building, the CIS Tower in Manchester, completed in 2005. At the time it was the largest commercial solar façade in Europe.

[crazydrifter]

I have a feeling more parking lots and facades will get covered in panels in a few decades ... makes so much sense even if the panels are not at the optimum angle

[andrecastillo]

Finally, the ultimate grand return! Welcome to 2024!

[mybeautifulcat]

Rest in peace 🙏 🪦 😢 we loved your videos, you were the best youtuber out there in construction and development field.

[bettyswallocks]

Killing two birds with one stone? Don’t tall, glass-clad buildings cause enough avian carnage already?

[CleanTechReimagined]

Great video! Integrating solar panels into buildings to provide electricity is a great idea that we will become more and more common.

[Bfould]

PV on the side of a building at very high latitude like Canada could make sense but the angle to the sun will be so poor below 45 latitude it can’t be cost effective. Your 20% efficiency will be more like 7% based on the panels orientation. Sorry you’re stretching your assumptions to please the sponsor.

[JP_TaVeryMuch]

There's so much more to be discovered in the world of secret solar power. Yet it seems to be taking an age to get them to market.

From water cooled domestic roof panels ~ increasing the efficiency and providing hot water ~ via thin and flexible mats designed to look like roof slates, to the ones featured in the video (which remind me of the old heated rear window filaments on cars; it's all very exciting and encouraging.

[Alan_Hans__]

If you could get more than 1MW average from the Burgh Khalifa I've got a bridge to sell you.The building is essentially vertical and panels get higher efficiency when they face the sun so less well under a third of the building will get sun relatively incident on it for 4 or 5 hours a day. For 6 months of the year you will also lose about 10% efficiency due to it being so hot.

[CausticLemons]

I love seeing solar integrated onto existing structures. No need to cover up potential agricultural land when a factory roof can do the same thing.

[domi]

I generally like your videos, and while this topic is interesting the information given simply doesn't make sense. Apart from the fact that the panels are less efficient and would be in the wrong orientation, the idea that whole cities could use this foregoes the fact that buildings are in each others shadow.

[hrushikeshavachat]

Transperent solar panels are becoming a reality and can actually make this a reality for galss glass building as well. Additionally, the windows can be installed with transperent solar panels that can produce electricity.

Note - I know that the efficiency of transperent solar panels is very low, but it is improving slowly.

[nomercynodragonforyou]

Very good idea, that I can really get behind

[TyroneMarchant]

I enjoyed this channel more than the b1m. Please come back

[imjody]

I live in Canada and didn't know about any of those buildings. Love to see it! Thanks, Tomorrow's Build. :)

[Artista_Frustrado]

honestly im shocked we took this long to even CONSIDER the idea of having SkyScrappers double as Solar-wind farms considering they're designed to catch sunlight & they're so tall they get constant wind

[ItsZICCY]

Was this channel ditched in favor of the B1M

[MyLittleMagneton]

Do you know why panels tend to be angled towards the sun like at 2:56 as opposed to lying flat on the ground?
Now imagine a vertical skyscraper where the panels are all pointing sideways ...and three quarters of them away from the sun.

That's why this will never be a practical thing.

[_martian]

the BUMN tower in the new indonesian capital city Nusantara is also proposed to be this kind of skyscrapper, using solar panels as a facade

[DynamicHaze]

Cover every canal and reservoir in solar panels to collect sunlight, cut evaparoation om those waterways, cool the panels due to them sitting over water, and create electricity over surface area thats not being used for anything else.

Then you put these solar panels on the roofs of every single school, shopping mall, church, hoospital, parking garages, sky scrapers etc.

We continue with home or modular/mini wond turbines that sit on these skyscrapers and other tall structures to capture wind to generate electricity.

With all these forms of electricty we need energy storage we can use excess energy to create hydrogen to be used when these forms of energu produciton arent producing eneough.