Talk:Quadruple glazing

Triple-panes are about the same as double-panes as additive logic apples in technological, engineering, processing and building physics. Double and triple panes now have product standards since 2018. Before 2018 triple panes were unregulated products done by engineer’s feel.

Quadruple (and above – multiple-pane in short) -panes were until 2015 (world’s first application on a large building; cited) an undiscovered county. There were technical problems regarding longevity (glass breakage and gas sealant damage due to overtemperature originating in intermediate panes' light absorption) and building physics problems as increasing R-values beyond those achievable with triple-panes apparently made no sensible economical gains in building heating energy. But reported research (and first real-world applications) showed, that there are benefits outside direct heating savings.

There are plenty (I invite you to study what the article says) but for now, I’d like to emphasize the most important one:

Multipane glazing can do zero-heating buildings. The building does not need heating (journal articles cited in present and dedicated Wiki article). This saves on heating apparatus, but above all, it makes nationwide seasonal energy storage unnecessary. Seasonal energy storage is THE major game stopper in the deployment of renewables as we have no way of doing it economically – until now – by simply going around it.

The reported results represent an applied science breakthrough that took 8 years (2007-2015) and 10 million €. Appropriate patent literature was generated (as evidence of worldwide novelty and inventive step).

--Alek14 (talk) 19:22, 28 August 2021 (UTC)