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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Very good idea, that I can really get behind

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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.

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.

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.

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

This is great news! I do wonder whether the integration of solar panels makes them harder to recycle though 🤔

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

A $1 billion development at 435 Bourke Street, Melbourne will feature a solar skin.

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

For me, distributed microgeneration is the future. In Brazil, for example, we had a recent record in which 93% of our energy was generated by renewable sources (62% hydro, 16% solar, etc.), and the majority of solar came from small producers(houses and businesses) This impacts the government budget, as state investments are no longer made in thermoelectric plants and new plants. Subsidies and tax cuts for products such as inverters, batteries and panels accelerate much more in new small producers that compensate the need for large companies waste large amounts of land and money to do so

lots of nay sayers about these windows. but if we compare them to a regular concrete slab or a regular window that returns no power, they are better. i'm sure the cost will drop as well. definitely a step forward.

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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.

If every house had solar panals on the roof, would we even need power plants other than to store energy for use at night?

I want BIPV or similar for my rentals.

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Not to mention a pipe system with turbines at interval sections with a fraction of the energy to pump water up and let free gravity do the rest of the work and the water going down those turbines to produce more energy.

Interesting video.

This is the future

1:08 Negligible, actually, when looking at "the big picture" of climate.

So the angle counts for nothing?

04:41 Midtown Office Tower, Tel Aviv, Israel

Taller MEANS more efficient if you take into account how many people there are and how their growth impacts limited resources esoecially space.

Waiting for perovskite

You could put solar on the side of buildings but you see a heavy drop in efficiency compared with panels angled towards the sun. This would make the panels so expensive that they may not even pay for themselves over their lifetime. Also that estimate of the power that the Burj khalifa could produce was lazy in the extreme in its calculations as well.

It's about instead manufacturing a solar panel ascetically that is pleasing to the building as opposed to not. I think they should also put solar technology into ordinary roofing shingles that are used in a lot of housing construction. 🌞

The problem isn't the placement of new solar panels persé: it's the cabling them together and transforming that power into usable voltages, as well as means to storage that energy for when it's really needed - which, in temperate climates, is hardly ever when the sun's shining brightly... Here in the Netherlands we see plenty projects fall flat on their faces because, after panels have been installed by east European workers, all the cabling (loads of copper!) has been nicked. Police is forever guessing who did it, while most outside of said police force have a pretty good clue, but not allowed do anything about this theft. Copper prices are rising, which means additional costs to be paid by the clients - not to mention all the extra security firms since police still hasn't got an inkling about the culprits. And even if they *did*, nobody there speaks polish anyway. End result: less solar panels installed, and even less properly working. On topic: High-rise buildings clad with integrated solar panelling would be lovely, but it's usually shot down by architects, who don't like their "artwork" marred in any way shape or form, including actual use by the owners. Architects and project developers are quite (i.e.: far too) familiar with city councils, and just do as they please, which is making vast amounts of money providing very little in the way of usable living accommodations. No matter how high: it's either going to have solar panels on the roof (depending on that massive skylight for an architect's price winning atrium, of course), or none at all.

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.

Sunlight hitting buildings already generates heat, which translates to lower heating costs/energy consumption. Also just to point out that the Burj Khalifa numbers are way off, since efficiency on fixed panels is hugely dependent on sun position and panel orientation. They're not the easiest or cheapest panels to clean, maintain or replace either. I'd also like to see a breakdown of the costs and efficiency of panels with translucent overlays, and whether they make financial sense or even reduce overall carbon emissions.

2:36 - - 3:02 - - BIPVs - - 3:16 - - MITREX co 3:40 - - church - - 3:53 / 4:02 / 4:08 - - housing - - 4:13 - - transparent panels 5:14 - - Roof shade w/solar panels 5:26 - - largest integrated solar project (665,000 sq meters) 4:48 - - rough calculations

How much damage to a lake’s ecosystem does blocking all the light with a mass of solar panels do?

Conflict of interest with a capital C, you don't talk freely about those that sponsor you, especially when they're the subject of the video becoming an ad for them.

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So if another skyscraper is built next door and cast a shadow on the first skyscraper, those panels will generate much less power? As a skyscraper fan my nightmare would be that those shadows stop another skyscraper from getting built. Of course that other skyscraper could also have solar panels, but I think solar panels make much more sense on he roofs of giant flat industrial buildings.

Tall buildings that lost funding for whatever reason could be fitted with temporary solar systems until a final disposition is determined.

Not sure how I feel about the sponsor of the video being the subject area of the entire video. Kinda feels like a 7 minute advert. Edit: Please stop messaging me, thanks.

Solar panels on all new buildings should be mandatory - houses, factories, skyscrapers, etc.

_"same_ number of inhabitants?" Ouch. Didn't Elon Musk do that for a sample of homes, just a few years ago? The roofs were attractive.

This is an impressive tecnology, but icovering sky-scrapersnot be the most cost-effective solution. In Tallinn, Estonia a new office development of 3 12-story buildings is entirely powered by a hardware store next to it, which is covered with solar panels. Estonia isn't very sunny, which just shows that you really don't need to cover everything with solar panels, even if you want the development to be energy neutral.

There are also clear ones js Edit he brought it up afterward i said this

What if skyscrapers were covered in bird poop?

Are the window panels transparent or translucent? I doubt people will like a window that they can’t see clearly out of.

When talking facts about electric cars, the e-deniers always gloss over the fact that solar panels on every southern-facing structure will massively offset or even be net-positive for the charging demands of these cars which isn't that bad to begin with anyways (10kWh per day for most commuters)

Why videos so quite, it's impossible to hear a word.

The claim about the possible energy production of the Burj Khalifa is ludicrously inaccurate... The video is nothing more than an infomercial for skyscraper developers looking for ways to greenwash their woefully inefficient projects.

so generally, solar power is awesome and we need more of it to be built fast, wherever possible. However, I don't think that it's worth it to build inefficient farms on the sides of skyscrapers (which are often overshadowed by other buildings in the neighborhood). You will get more climate impact for your money as a developer if you instead use that money to buy some space on a factory roof and put up regular cheap Chinese panels. You will get even more climate impact for your money if you donate to lobbying organizations such as the Clean Air Task Force.

Was hoping this was a cool video about solar buildings but it turned out to be an ad.

This sort of stuff is nothing more than green washing, the inclination of the panels is important if you want to optimize energy production... The orientation panels would always be suboptimal, they are hard to service and not to mention that due to their transparency these panels are already less efficient than regular ones.

Wooden skyscrapers are the best

DA !!! I've had this idea for a decade, But nobody listens.,

You should clearly mark the entire video as an advertisement.

And what about the service life of those solar panals?

sponsored by the solar company that the video is about. so its an advert. usually youd have it on screen all the video, but i guess you dont want people to know they paid for you to make this about their rich ivestments....jesus like those sneaky adverts you put in all the older videos about a digital copy of the building, even on prodjects that didnt use it. bewcause you were being paid to promote them every time.

Should be, ok STALIN.

These anti-skyscraper ideas are so stupid. Covering it with solar panels is just one of MANY ideas to make it sustainable. It doesn't matter and it's obvious that it's dirtier than small buildings. But people forget that it is tall, so it can accommodate many times the usable space compared to small buildings, meaning we can have more green areas and fewer taller buildings to meet our needs. Skyscrapers are not the problem, they are the solution! Lack of urban planning, zoning, vision and building regulations are the problem!

0:30 I rather not kill any bird at all lol

Instead of "killing two birds with one stone", why not, "feeding two birds with one seed"?

This video isn't very detailed. I don't know what it looks like from the inside or how it works.

Was the additional energy cost to human beings factored into that study? Especially the cost to older and handicapped individuals who cannot ride everywhere on a bicycle like one of Mao’s millions of victims. Even the bicyclists will require more energy that I expect wasn’t factored into the equation.

Its probably already been thought about, but if it hasnt hopefully whoever reads this and develops it will credit it me one day. Why tf dont elevators going down generate electricity??? Please font forget me if you make billions 😂

This entire video is literally just an ad. Completely glossed over a lot of the limitations of this idea and solar, because highlighting any of the drawbacks would upset the sponsor. I'm a bit disappointed. If this behavior continues I'll probably unsubscribe

Meta skysrapa. I know for a fact you can say your r's. Atall wtf.

The whole thing is an ad. Unsubbed.

If we didn't use so much power it wouldn't be an issue. Crypto mining, data centres, electric cars, electric everything, people need to realise that a simpler life would solve a lot of problems.

This is an ad!!!! U think im stupid?! Unsubscribing