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which is only 2% of the time.

Although these things have a spectacular acceleration rate, it is my suggestion, that unless the home is going to be unoccupied for an extended period of time, that they not be deeply set back. They charge the internal mass, and that is what takes a while to recharge.

As for cost, I do not yet know the cost of a replacement window, without heat, but with heat the comfort factor is significantly improved, thereby warranting the additional expense.

As it pertains to apartment dwellers, they will now be directly responsible for their own energy usage, and I guarantee you they WILL conserve.

These things could revolutionize the comfort biz...

Wheez, I understand perfectly :-) And if the e-window is in a south facing consideration, and it senses a solar gain situation and consequent room temp rise, it takes a nap and wakes up when Mr Sun has gone to bed :-)

ME

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Mark E and Rad glass

Hey Mark thought I would start a new thread. I knew there had to be more to this radiant glass then you initially lead on, or could be extracted from their web site.

The applications sound endless, and my narrow mindedness was not thinking of the super insulated home heating dilemas.Think all that glass on comercial buildings, sky scrapers.

I have to ask though how much wattage are we talking at peak output on a square foot bases to run these. I saw 50 watts per hour, but how much glass is being powered?

Can this be a cost effective solution to a home with older windows which are still in fine shape, but less than efficient? Thinking that say 36000.00 for new winders verses a Radiant glass renovation/add on package where the old winders stay. You gain the benefit of the radiant glass to boot.

Gordy

Weezbo

i thought about this I.Q. glass a bit...

my words are my own so just go with it, ok? *~/:)

when the sun comes up early in the morning in winter and hits the glass, that is what i call "Long Light". it is cold outside however the Long light continues on its way to your window. the window, say is made of glass, not seal hide or wax paper or cellophane....the light zooms right straight thru the window though and then it Hits something..a fish bowl lets say....some is reflected some is refracted and some is sorta captured within the fish bowl
it is not able now that it has slowed down a bit to go back where it came from. its "In There" *~/:)

so it bounces around in the fish bowl and because it is sorta excited it makes everything the light hits a bit more excited. all that excitement makes things heat up,....

now say it is a two pane window, the long light hits it the light goes through the first pane of glass , same deal except now some of the light that was reflected stays in like this boundary of the two pieces of glass bouncing back and forth ...that makes the space within this two pane window warm some light still zooms right on thru the window much more of it is refracted and yet, plenty still makes its way through in a straight line buh refraction is more likely to occur as the density of the glass is not probably lining up molecule by molecule in some orderly fashion so that the light can zip straight through the glass in only one direction...more than likely it is disorganized and the light tends to hit and refract more than through one piece of glass.

now ,what i Think may be happening with the smart glass is, that it has a thin Skin" that can be moved as it were to work like a colour absorber.. maybe from Dark black obscuring and trapping light to translucent bending light yet allowing some of it through more easily to transparent letting the maximum of light through... sorta like a dial from obscured light to transparent through opaque and translucent. i do not Know this this is what i think is happening.

ok, so the light unable to get through the obscured window is absorbing the light. as it is black it also absorbs heat from the long light. the absorption is the thing, instead of it zipping straight into the room it can be somewhat stored it the "Emitter ",( which would be the skin that transforms the light to heat by "getting in the Way" of the light.)

that emitter maybe gets plenty warm plenty quick, heat goes to cold so some of the heat of the long light is radiating outward from the window to the cold outside....instead say of beaming thru the window glass and driving the temps up on every slow moving thing that it hits,.. in its excitement on finding something to pound on.

you have to think it is been been traveling a long time and the slow moving traffic is somewhat irresistible to the traveler its got like this galactic road rage built up:)

so usually it would be pounding away on the floor all day long staring on the walls and aiming at the floor ) ok ok the floor gets really warm , A? these surfaces become emitters of the light and all that pent up aggression of traveling so many miles on the "Freeway"....*~/:)

the good part about the smart windows is that they bleed off some of the agression at the window , then let the more civilized form of light into your home, througout the day,in an orderly procedure. *~/:)

like i say dont quote me on this

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Old and New

Mark please keep me informed on the progress of when this is ready for the main stream.

Wondering if any thought is being given to the replacement window (old construction) side of things.

It could make for a better selling point if it were found that a cost effective (cheaper) solution with this product. As to complete window replacement. Ideas would be radiant combination storms, Radiant screens on operable units,or a radiant film low e. Dont even know if these are feasable with this product, but these are some ideas as to a cheaper way to get around a total window replacement.

As you know its all about the envelope but most people are not inclined to spend big dollars on replacing windows to cut down on heating losses. Sticker shock of an excellent window usually leads people down the path of paying the money for the fuel to heat.


Gordy

Weezbo

While that may be true in the past, Gordy,....

i think Mark is correct about Mr. Sun *~/:) the Government has yet taken to taxing the heck out of us for the work it does.

Although , that may occur in the future.


have any of you news of Ted Turners involvement in the Yellowing Greening Bluing of America?

DT SOLAR .com

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Did not work Weezbo. I know what you are saying though.

Gordy