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[–] 0 points 1 day ago (1 child)

A solar panel can't heat a space more just by being present, but if it replaces reflective surfaces then sure.

In normal circumstances it reduces heat compared to a similar surface due to converting solar energy which would've become heat into electricity (assuming you don't use all that energy right away, in which case it merely transports where the heat happens away from the panel)

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  • [–] 2 points 22 hours ago

    They scattered infrared light in a weird way.

    I was actually installing a system with passive IR motion sensors that worked great at night, but as soon a as the sun was shining in, went all haywire. We brought them down the hall to the older tinted window wing, and they behaved normally again. They even worked well outside, which we thought was the worst case scenario during testing.

    When we came back with an ir camera, it was full of scattered noise, but the resolution wasn’t good enough to understand exactly what was happening and we had already switched to different hardware that worked around the problem.

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