New solar panels that work at night
Bob Morris @ Feb 5th 2008 03:06 - Category: Renewable energy, Solar power
These next-gen solar panels can absorb infrared energy as well as solar, and thus can work into the early evening hours too, boosting efficiency.
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Jansen on 16 Sep 2008 at 6:27 am #
Clever - and I suppose it will (finally) get some people off their duffs to action - but I already have excess solar power (and many of my panels are off the Cariso Plain experimental site - more than 30 years old, now) and am awaiting the plug-in electric vehicle which will use that excess power. This ‘early evening’ charge might be just the thing for winter commuters’ new plug-in/solar hybrid cars - there is exciting new technology coming out of Australia, and New Jersey, too. All good stuff! No need for all that strip mining, drilling and transporting of coal, oil and gas! And we can use our crops for food! Do you suppose that scares the status-quo? Wind (a subsidiary of solar) and solar can do it all! This is a revolution anybody can get behind! Viva!