New Database Shines Spotlight on Decades of Solar Mirror Research
The publicly available Solar Mirror Materials Database (SMMD) will contain information from thousands of solar mirror samples from more than a hundred suppliers that have been subjected to outdoor tests and laboratory environments.
- The publicly available Solar Mirror Materials Database (SMMD) will contain information from thousands of solar mirror samples from more than a hundred suppliers that have been subjected to outdoor tests and laboratory environments.
- Details about the SMMD are contained in a new article, “ Compilation of a Solar Mirror Materials Database and an Analysis of Natural and Accelerated Mirror Exposure and Degradation ,” published in the Journal of Solar Energy Engineering.
- You want to reflect solar energy and concentrate it at a single point and capture the heat,” Farrell said.
- NREL is the U.S. Department of Energy's primary national laboratory for renewable energy and energy efficiency research and development.