At first glance, it looks like an ordinary red brick, but in fact, this is "Solar Brick" launched by Canadian solar company Mitrex. In the future, there will be no need to worry about damaging the beauty of a home when installing solar panels, so that the integration of solar energy into a building will not be boring and no longer be just an inconvenient blue module.
Mitrex solar bricks consist of a 330W solar panel with a honeycomb aluminum interlayer which is lightweight and durable due to the strength of the aluminum.
According to the Miltrex team, the top of the monocrystalline solar cells of the Mitrex solar brick is coated with a patented anti-reflection and anti-fouling coating. Wall textures include granite, porcelain, brick, wood grain, as well as roof solar designs that mimic tiles, and you can design your own.
According to Mitrex, solar bricks are suitable for new construction or retrofitting older structures. CEO Danial Hadizadeh said the team's mission is to change the way we build, and electrically-powered buildings are one of the logical and sustainable solutions to climate change.
Mitrex is also currently being tested in a building in Etobicoke, Toronto, Canada, where it is expected to feature in a 7,000-square-foot solar brick wall with a 100KW installation capable of generating 90,000 kWh of electricity per year.
In fact, there are many manufacturers who are also optimistic about the building integration solar market and invest in the research and development of new solar solution technologies. For rooftop solar, TESLA's Solar Roof, which seems to be no different from ordinary roof tiles, is one example. For solar facades, the Fraunhofer Center for Silicon Photovoltaics, a German applied scientific research institution, has partnered with the Hochschule für Telekommunikation Leipzig and the Dresden University of Technology to invest in the solar energy project SOLAR.shell, hoping to beautify integrated building solar energy.
For example, Heliartec Solitions in Taiwan also integrates architectural design, TFT-LCD panels, monocrystalline and thin-film solar energy industries, and develops a realistic power generation building material, "Aesthetic Clean Energy Wall."
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