They pretty much only eat live-food, so mine hunts crickets, and the really little ones get wingless fruit flies.

No need to get them on your screen.

I’ve got a couple as pets. They are genuinely wonderful little desk companions. My spider that recently passed gave me, let’s not say new, but refreshed, perspective on the intelligence and self-awareness of arthropods.

It’s a simple 2-part equation to determine what is a good/bad choice (socially)

Golden rule (do unto others…), combined with a little social intelligence to understand that if I were someone else, I might want different things.

Generally, shooting people with paintballs is bad, but there are scenarios where someone is okay with getting shot with a paintball (like when playing paintball) so shooting them with a paintball in that circumstance is “good”.

there are plenty of photons that don’t make it through windows, both by intentional design and just natural material properties. So, there is potential to make use of that.

Sure, but a solar panel of the same size on the wall next to the window capturing 100% of the light is already (100-VLTrating) more effective than the solar window. Bring mounted vertically on a wall makes it like 25% as effective as the same panel placed on the ground, which makes it like 50% as effective as a properly mounted panel on a roof.

So assuming you’ve what would be a 100W potential equivalent panel on a 50%VLT window, you’re getting 6.25W out of that 100W, and that’s assuming that these 50VLT windows panels operate just as efficiently as a conventional panel, which I’m gonna guess they don’t, but I don’t have rough numbers for that particular comparison.

Unless the window panel somehow outperforms the efficiency of a conventional panel (doubtful), it’s going to just be a huge waste of money, and if it does outperform the conventional panel, we’d just mount a 0VLT “window” like a conventional panel and still get over 4x the production. It’s a patently ridiculous idea that takes literal seconds to determine it’s a waste of time and money, and mere minutes to do the math to show it.

Before you tear apart my numbers, yes, I did ballpark the efficiency of those angles. I’d did a lot of math calculating a roof mounted vs free standing fixed vs free standing single axis movable vs free standing dual axis movable mounts for a solar pergola that I want to build but lack the funds to setup, so I know roughly how much power you get out of panels at different angles. The numbers are ballparked, but feel free to use whatever actual efficiency numbers you can find, but I think you’d be hard pressed to find real-world values that put the window above 10% of the total output of a traditional panel.

Bro, you need to learn how to substantiate an argument instead of puking up lazy versions of “touch grass”.

Sounds like what you are suggesting is a standalone solar panel mounted on a sun tracking mount above a window? Still, it would be better and cheaper to just lay a solar panel out in the yard and then install a conventional window shutter.

Just that you’re loudness is unwarranted, based on it’s contents.

Been hearing the same shit about solar windows for the last 20 years. They fundementally don’t work. I literally cannot say it LOUD ENOUGH on ANY AND EVERY PLATFORM that people need to logically evaluate the technologies they are proposing.

If you think about solar windows for more than 10 second and come back with “that’s a cool idea, it will totally work!” then you either have a room temp IQ, or you are too young (or old) to be allowed outside unsupervised.

Already addressed.

I wonder why solar window shutters aren’t a thing.

Because the source of light is mostly up in the sky, and solar panels work best when they are mostly perpendicular to the direction the light is shining.

G-dawg, have you considered that…

IT’S FACING THE WRONG WAY

Also, objectively you would end up spending more money for fancy solar windows to intentionally let those precious photons seep through.

The only place I could see something like this “working” would be in a predominantly glass-roofed building where the amount of light coming through the roof needs to be intentionally limited, and the location does not have space for a freestanding or conventional solar setup. That’s such an edge case usage that I can’t imagine why I’ve been hearing this same dumb idea for the last 20 years.

Skunk says the foxes must be primarily responsible for building secure chicken coops.

IT’S FACING THE WRONG WAY AND IT EITHER BLOCKS A LOT OF LIGHT WHICH MAKES IT A SHITTY WINDOW, OR IT DOESN’T, WHICH MAKES IT A SHITTY SOLAR PANEL. THE FUNCTION OF ONE APPLICATION IS IN DIRECT CONFLICT WITH THE OTHER.

Caps because I can’t think of another way to make it more obvious than it was in my previous comment.

I wonder why solar window shutters aren’t a thing.

Because the source of light is mostly up in the sky, and solar panels work best when they are mostly perpendicular to the direction the light is shining.

Can we please stop pouring money into stupid ideas? Solar windows make as much sense as a water-soluble condom. It’s the kind of hair-brained shit I’d expect to see Elon touting. An invention that is the antithesis of its purpose, dreamed up and funded by some methed out moron surrounded by yes-men and brown-nosers who is so out of touch with the world that he doesn’t understand the innate purpose of the object, nor the application of the technology

Tell them to name one problem, and show their work that Dems caused it, Repubs are trying to fix it, and how that caused diesel prices to spike.

Spoiler, they can’t.

Too good. Only a matter of time until off-duty cops have punisher and helldiver’s skulls on the back of their spotless F150s

It won’t work. If it comes to armed resistance, those cameras are coming down fast. People on both sides of the political spectrum hate them.

That shit should not breach containment. I want those shit bird republicans kept here. I want them prosecuted to the full extent of the law here. I want to see them thrown into the shithole private prison system they built. I want to hear the judge give them life sentences without parole. And then I want to never hear a fucking word from them again until they die.

republicans who collect firearms and bullets like baseball cards

Doesn’t matter how many guns you have, you still only have 2 hands.

Pfffff. That a problem for people who pay debts. Kings don’t pay.

Short answer : no.

Long answer : legal doesn’t really matter when Congress and the SC are in your pocket and refuse to hold you accountable for explicitly breaking the rules over and over again.