Manchester’s CIS Tower could be the world’s tower entire covered with solar panels,
which is something impressive behaviour in mind that the idea of buildings covered with solar panels have moved behind the drawing board stage. It was said: that this solar panels are packed with a punch, a much greener panels that produce 81W photovoltaic of energy, taking into consideration that the entire tower has approximately 7,250 panels, which would literally translate into 393 kilowatts of energy and can power approximately 1,100 computers for a year.
Well not really, with a price tag of $11.4 million, these solar panels cost a bomb considering the fact that if the panels were to run at full load for 12 hours a day 365 days a year the savings would be about $150,000 a year, so the building will break even after 75 years-far
longer than the lifetime of the cells, and the best part is, keeping the money in a bank that promise a good interest rate return at 3 -4% for half year would definitely cover the electricity bills. Conclusion. Solar panels has a long way to go and Global Warming is here to stay for good, goodbye earth!
