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The Solar Museum
An 8-story wall of solar panels, 234 in all, will give a big energy boost to the Milwaukee Public Museum.
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An 8-story wall of solar panels, 234 in all, will give a big energy boost to the Milwaukee Public Museum. Back to the full article.
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Phenomenal! Any report on how much of the buildings use this satisfies? And is the $300k savings *After* the expense?
Sadly this story is not completely accurate. Apparently Berglund has once again started a project in the city w/o permits (maybe that is the way it is done in Chicago) only to discover after starting demolition that combustible materials (PV solar panels) can not be placed on the walls of high-rise buildings in keeping with building codes.
Hopefully a solution can be engineered or designed to meet the requirements or a variance obtained as the idea is certainly laudable, if not ideally efficient with panels placed at 90 degrees to the horizontal rather than the recommended 43 degrees at our latitude. We do need to move away from non-renewable energy sources and this would be a highly visible step in the right direction. There are examples in other parts of the world. Maybe the architects, engineers and code officials can figure it out.