Avoiding Sun Burn: Rooftop Solar Panel Safety Tests

A new 2,100-square-meter building outside Frankfurt, Germany, houses a series of chambers that can simulate a hot, humid day or temperatures so frigid that metals crack, and every punishing weather scenario in between. It's all for testing one product--solar photovoltaic panels --and it's the third such facility opened since 2008. [More]

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