Not exact matches
This switchable
glass could offer a simple and inexpensive way to make smart
windows that change between clear and
opaque.
But this isn't
glass as we know it: The new
glass is
opaque, twice as strong as
window glass, and made of metal.
All of the
windows are what Land Rover calls Smart
Glass, and can display almost any information desired, and their tint level can be varied from fully transparent to fully
opaque at the touch of a button.
The concept, shown in «rhapsody blue,» features a
glass roof that can electronically switch from clear to
opaque, seats that adjust 30 ways — including separate thigh supports for each leg — and subtle door handles concealed in chrome beneath the
windows.
Supplementing the optional
windows that absorb 65 per cent of the light, there is an option for 90 per cent light - absorbing rear
glass which gives an almost
opaque appearance to those looking in from the outside.
Separating the cabins is a privacy
glass that, along with the rear side windows, has an eletrochromic «Smart Glass» that changes from opaque to clear with the push of a bu
glass that, along with the rear side
windows, has an eletrochromic «Smart
Glass» that changes from opaque to clear with the push of a bu
Glass» that changes from
opaque to clear with the push of a button.
The
window glass is removable and interchangeable, allowing for owners to personalize their FT - 4X even further with multiple
opaque color or tinted
glass options.
This is not just any privacy
glass, however, the
windows turn completely
opaque from outside looking in by merely pressing a button.
Side
windows add natural light, tastefully subdued by
opaque glass and gauze curtaining.
They are an interesting idea but fundamentally, we should be turning the
opaque spandrels and space between
windows into solar collectors at far higher efficiencies and reducing the amount of vision
glass.
A handbook for university students co-written by the chairman [1] of the French National Research Council explains it's the equivalent of a
glass window transparent in the visible spectrum and
opaque in the thermal infrared spectrum; but this «analogy» has been, in 1909, experimentally proven wrong by a famous specialist of optics, the professor Robert Wood of John Hopkins University [2].
For certification purposes, both the frame and the
glass spacer are considered together as the
opaque elements of a
window.
A certified Passivhaus
window has an «efficiency class» (from phC «Certifiable component» up to phA + «Very advanced component») which is based on the performance of the
opaque elements since the
glass specification is project - specific.
One of them is to opt for
windows with
opaque glass.