Sunlight Reflection and Glare From Solar Panels

Qyburn

Netexporter said:

Remember when flicker from wind turbine blades was a thing? The tinfoil hat community will always be with us.

Hopefully it still is considered. Our LA assesses shadow flicker out to 10x rotor diameter and in theory requires the turbines to be programmed to avoid it. 

Krakkkers

Got me thinking.
What powers a mirror?
In the dark does the mirror not work or does it reflect darkness?
If you look in a mirror at the speed of light does it reflect?

Martyn1981

Krakkkers said:

Got me thinking.
What powers a mirror?
In the dark does the mirror not work or does it reflect darkness?
If you look in a mirror at the speed of light does it reflect?

Does a mirror work in a forest, if there's nobody there to see it?

Just something to reflect on, perhaps.

paul991

maybe can put a mirror on the back of the opposite  house then I would get the early morning sun on my panels 

Alnat1

Hang a mirror next to your window and angle it so it reflects the light back to the house that's causing the problem.

Reed_Richards

Krakkkers said:

If you look in a mirror at the speed of light does it reflect?

When you look at someone's face you see light that has struck their face, some of which has been absorbed and the rest reflected off.  When you look at your own face in a mirror you see that light from your face that has been reflected off the silvered surface behind the glass of the mirror and then to your eye.  So if you could turn your head really fast to look in a mirror you might see the image of the side of your head! But relativity causes all sorts of strange effects when you travel at any speed approaching the speed of light which I am not accounting for.  And the speed with which your optic nerve conveys information to your brain is not great so what you see is always subject to a small delay.    

Martyn1981

Reed_Richards said:

Krakkkers said:

If you look in a mirror at the speed of light does it reflect?

When you look at someone's face you see light that has struck their face, some of which has been absorbed and the rest reflected off.  When you look at your own face in a mirror you see that light from your face that has been reflected off the glass surface of the mirror and then to your eye.  So if you could turn your head really fast to look in a mirror you might see the image of the side of your head! But relativity causes all sorts of strange effects when you travel at any speed approaching the speed of light which I am not accounting for.  And the speed with which your optic nerve conveys information to your brain is not great so what you see is always subject to a small delay.    

So ........ I always look younger in a mirror. 

Heedtheadvice

Oh I hate to be picky but

" When you look at your own face in a mirror you see that light from your face that has been reflected off the glass surface of the mirror and then to your eye. " is not strictly true but a good general description!! Not 'off the glass' really.

For the majority of mirrors that we see:

The light passes through the glass ( angle dependent ) and reflects off the 'silvering' on the back surface and then back through the glass.....approximately, as there are other effects potentially at play too such as refraction, interference and transmission losses.

That us why specialist mirrors often do not have glass.

Reed_Richards

@Heedtheadvice you're absolutely correct and I knew that but wasn't thinking about it at the time.  I have amended my post.  Light travels more slowly through glass than through air so you even have a bit more time to see the side of your face when turning your head really fast.

Heedtheadvice

Tee hee......just thinking of that film with the rotating head.....

And there I thought I was always being found out  because my wife had eyes in the back of her head. She was just very fast and I am slow.....