Solar panels with 80% efficiency, working even at night?


Currently, the maximum efficiency of typical solar panels does not exceed 20%. In addition, they can not convert solar energy into electricity at night and in cloudy winter days, their performance significantly decreases.

The group of scientists from the Idaho National Laboratory, led by Stephen Nowak (Steven Novack) believes that their new development will help to overcome these disadvantages of traditional solar panels. According to the source, Mr. Novak is working on creating technology that can be relatively inexpensive to manufacture bilateral flexible solar panels with efficiencies up to 80% (!), One side of which can work even at night.

The group of scientists from the National Laboratory of Idago

The key to the development is the use of a special material, which consists of miniature nano antenn that can «capture» infrared radiation. Scientists say that the production of such item is not complicated, but still in front of Stephen Nowak remains a serious problem - the conversion of light into another kind of energy. The source notes that scientists are already working on this and we intend to solve the problem of energy conversion, putting the center of each  miniature condenser, no more details have not yet been disclosed. The researchers hope that their idea would allow for very high compared with the current value of the efficiency of the panels.

Flexible solar panels

To judge whether there is a chance to have this development will ever embark on a commercial footing, experts can only after detailed consultation with the group Novak. I want to believe that scientists would succeed.
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