Rollable and retractable solar panels design concept to prototype
Budget: $1,000 – $5,000 USD
We need a design concept for and a working prototype of a high-efficiency solar panel that is pole mounted, rollable, and retractable for powering individual or multiple buildings.
The idea is to connect perpetually rolling high-efficiency thin PV module solar panel films that are pole-mounted and retractable, which will have a vertical cylindrical pole that rolls on its axis or a vertically rotating drum on which the roll of solar panel film rotates and retracts into or from.
A good analogy would have been a roll of movie films but for the absence of a perpetual rolling ability.
As each cross-section of the solar panel film rolls around to the optimum path of sunlight exposure and becomes fully charged, it retracts to expose another cross-section of the solar panel film roll for recharging until the entire cross-sections of the film roll are charged.
The usage of electricity from the charged solar panels will follow in the order of their charging so that the first cross-section to drain will be the first cross-section to recharge, and so on.
The rolls of films may be placed sectionally as illustrated below for ease of rotation of each film roll or placed as a single roll of film.
The desired thin solar film design may or may not require a new manufacturing process but should surpass in both form factor (thinness) and efficiency the PV module half-cell 70w, 80w, 100w, or 200w mono cigs thin film solar panels illustrated below and to be found at https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/High-Efficiency-Pv-Module-Half-Cell_1600722793897.html?spm=a2700.details.0.0.721617b95vZmHK
If the desired thin solar film design would require a new manufacturing process, a projected design and manufacturing cost should be included
The idea is to connect perpetually rolling high-efficiency thin PV module solar panel films that are pole-mounted and retractable, which will have a vertical cylindrical pole that rolls on its axis or a vertically rotating drum on which the roll of solar panel film rotates and retracts into or from.
A good analogy would have been a roll of movie films but for the absence of a perpetual rolling ability.
As each cross-section of the solar panel film rolls around to the optimum path of sunlight exposure and becomes fully charged, it retracts to expose another cross-section of the solar panel film roll for recharging until the entire cross-sections of the film roll are charged.
The usage of electricity from the charged solar panels will follow in the order of their charging so that the first cross-section to drain will be the first cross-section to recharge, and so on.
The rolls of films may be placed sectionally as illustrated below for ease of rotation of each film roll or placed as a single roll of film.
The desired thin solar film design may or may not require a new manufacturing process but should surpass in both form factor (thinness) and efficiency the PV module half-cell 70w, 80w, 100w, or 200w mono cigs thin film solar panels illustrated below and to be found at https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/High-Efficiency-Pv-Module-Half-Cell_1600722793897.html?spm=a2700.details.0.0.721617b95vZmHK
If the desired thin solar film design would require a new manufacturing process, a projected design and manufacturing cost should be included