{"id":18671,"date":"2021-11-28T23:14:15","date_gmt":"2021-11-29T07:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=18671"},"modified":"2021-11-28T23:14:54","modified_gmt":"2021-11-29T07:14:54","slug":"design-googles-dragonscale-solar-roofs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/28\/design-googles-dragonscale-solar-roofs\/","title":{"rendered":"Design: Google&#8217;s &#8220;Dragonscale&#8221; solar roofs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>For the last few years I&#8217;ve been curiously watching what I affectionately call &#8220;nerd terrariums&#8221; being erected on Google&#8217;s main campus. Now the team behind their unique roof designs is <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.google\/outreach-initiatives\/sustainability\/dragonscale-solar\/\">providing some insight<\/a> into how they work:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>These panels coupled with the pavilion-like rooflines let us capture the power of the sun from multiple angles. Unlike a flat roof, which generates peak power at the same time of the day, our dragonscale solar skin will generate power during an extended amount of daylight hours&#8230; When up-and-running, Charleston East and Bay View will have about 7 megawatts of installed renewable power\u2014generating roughly 40% of their energy needs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.googleapis.com\/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod\/images\/IMG_1100_Chris_McAnneny_Heatherwick_Studio.max-1000x1000.jpg\" alt=\"Four construction team members install BIPV at Google\u2019s Bay View office development.\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Check out a quick overview\u2014literally:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Dragonscale solar at Google&#039;s new Mountain View campus\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3ec1xFE9ZcM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the last few years I&#8217;ve been curiously watching what I affectionately call &#8220;nerd terrariums&#8221; being erected on Google&#8217;s main campus. Now the team behind their unique roof designs is providing some insight into how they work: These panels coupled with the pavilion-like rooflines let us capture the power of the sun from multiple angles. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18671"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18671"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18781,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18671\/revisions\/18781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}