90% Solar panel invented

[Cherryman]

Here they claim a new Solar panel, with 90% effectivity !!

Comparing with the around 20% they have now.. It give hugh possibilities!


Now we wait... Until the MIB arrives and you will never hear of it again...

Solar Sheet Can Capture More Than 90-Percent Of Sunlight

[Savvypro]

One of these new 3D designs, turns the whole panel in to a giant NPN junction. Where you have a big block on one side, the "P" part coats the block with holes. Then you have what almost looks like a bed of nails (which is the antennas) that gets pushed into the holes that have been made in the block to form the junction.
Sorta like:
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|:::| =| <- antennas
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^ block with holes

The sunlight hits the block, and because of it's volume and the increase in surface area, more of the energy is absorbed and transfered to a usable form.

[thepatrickblack]

Nice! That's good news since I just this thing about the ocean engulfing our homes in a few years.

Polar Melting will lead to Higher Sea Levels by 2100 | Enviralment

[shawnnweed]

[QUOTE=Savvypro;143768]One of these new 3D designs, turns the whole panel in to a giant NPN junction. Where you have a big block on one side, the "P" part coats the block with holes. Then you have what almost looks like a bed of nails (which is the antennas) that gets pushed into the holes that have been made in the block to form the junction.
Sorta like:
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I don't mean to burst your bubble but they have been working on these solar panels for about three years and rehashing the articles. The problem with these solar panels is that they have found a very unique way of harvesting the individual Infrared spectrum using CdTe(Cadmium Telluride) Nanowires(funny looking anntennas) but they still have not figured out a way to convert that light into electricity. To put it bluntly I can put a black T-SHirt in the sun and harvest 80% of the suns spectrum but that shirt will convert 0% into electricity much the same as those new panels. Whenever they figure that one out we will be all right.

[Savvypro]

Originally Posted by Savvypro
One of these new 3D designs, turns the whole panel in to a giant NPN junction. Where you have a big block on one side, the "P" part coats the block with holes. Then you have what almost looks like a bed of nails (which is the antennas) that gets pushed into the holes that have been made in the block to form the junction.
Sorta like:
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I don't mean to burst your bubble but they have been working on these solar panels for about three years and rehashing the articles. The problem with these solar panels is that they have found a very unique way of harvesting the individual Infrared spectrum using CdTe(Cadmium Telluride) Nanowires(funny looking anntennas) but they still have not figured out a way to convert that light into electricity. To put it bluntly I can put a black T-SHirt in the sun and harvest 80% of the suns spectrum but that shirt will convert 0% into electricity much the same as those new panels. Whenever they figure that one out we will be all right.

Burst away, although I was referring to the theory of the design.

On a different note, which I forgot to add in my previous post was that the 3D block design. More specifically the way it’s supposed to work reminds me of the solar collector described in the book: The Boy Electrician - which used German silver as the means of converting the solar energy to a useable form.

[shawnnweed]

Burst away, although I was referring to the theory of the design.

On a different note, which I forgot to add in my previous post was that the 3D block design. More specifically the way it’s supposed to work reminds me of the solar collector described in the book: The Boy Electrician - which used German silver as the means of converting the solar energy to a useable form.

And by 3D I'm guessing you mean something similar to the multi-junction cells?

[Savvypro]

And by 3D I'm guessing you mean something similar to the multi-junction cells?

That's what I thought when I first heard of the design, but this one, the way it was described and depicted was of just one semiconductor "junction". But with a greater surface area because of the nano antennas, the 3D bit was because the designs greater thickness.

Imagine you had a foam block which was say 10 cm thick (the other dimensions don't really matter for this example) then you got yourself a bed of very tightly packed nails which were 8 to 9 cm long (the other dimensions being the same as the foam block) . Then you sprayed the nails with say black spray paint, when the paint is dry the bed of nails is pushed into the foam block. That's how the 3D design would look, just on a much smaller scale.

Even if they got any of the new designs into production, their price would be massively high.

And would be kept that way artificially for a very long time.

Just take a look at the current costs, if they were computer processors all the latest ones would each cost millions of $ each, instead of hundreds.

[shawnnweed]

That's what I thought when I first heard of the design, but this one, the way it was described and depicted was of just one semiconductor "junction". But with a greater surface area because of the nano antennas, the 3D bit was because the designs greater thickness.

Imagine you had a foam block which was say 10 cm thick (the other dimensions don't really matter for this example) then you got yourself a bed of very tightly packed nails which were 8 to 9 cm long (the other dimensions being the same as the foam block) . Then you sprayed the nails with say black spray paint, when the paint is dry the bed of nails is pushed into the foam block. That's how the 3D design would look, just on a much smaller scale.

Even if they got any of the new designs into production, their price would be massively high.





And would be kept that way artificially for a very long time.

Just take a look at the current costs, if they were computer processors all the latest ones would each cost millions of $ each, instead of hundreds.

I see. So are these people claiming to have solved the conversion process above being able to catch a majority of the light or are they still 'not saying?" Because most are claiming to be able to catch a majority of the spectrum but are not saying if they have made a way to convert that light into electricity.

[noeladdison]

Wow that's a good news. It will help us reduce our dependence on non-renewable energy like fossil fuel, crude oil, etc.

[wrtner]

[QUOTE=shawnnweed;143776]

One of these new 3D designs, turns the whole panel in to a giant NPN junction. Where you have a big block on one side, the "P" part coats the block with holes. Then you have what almost looks like a bed of nails (which is the antennas) that gets pushed into the holes that have been made in the block to form the junction.
Sorta like:
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I don't mean to burst your bubble but they have been working on these solar panels for about three years and rehashing the articles. The problem with these solar panels is that they have found a very unique way of harvesting the individual Infrared spectrum using CdTe(Cadmium Telluride) Nanowires(funny looking anntennas) but they still have not figured out a way to convert that light into electricity. To put it bluntly I can put a black T-SHirt in the sun and harvest 80% of the suns spectrum but that shirt will convert 0% into electricity much the same as those new panels. Whenever they figure that one out we will be all right.

Peltier effect chips will help if there is a source of coldness around.