Clearly you don’t know how much longer sketchy hallways get in the dark. It’s at least a 20 fold increase.
Comment on 'Reverse Solar Panel' Generates Electricity at Night
DoubleDongle@lemmy.world 2 months ago
One watt per square meter. Not very useful.
db2@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Nioxic@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Could be good enough for light in dark places
But… yes
Generally not enough. But maybe with more work they could become better
TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You’re getting downvoted for pointing out that this technology, at optimal efficiency on Earth, generates about 1/100,000 that of a solar panel. “Not very useful” is an understatement (it’s currently fucking useless). Even worse: the title saying “at night” implies a terrestrial usage and misdirects from this technology’s only potential useful application in the future once and if it becomes much better – namely on deep-space missions.
cheesemoo@lemmy.world 2 months ago
That 1/100,000 comparison doesn’t seem right if these panels generate 1W per square meter as the parent poster said. It sounds like you’re saying regular solar panels generate 100kW per square meter but I’m pretty sure that’s orders of magnitude too high. Am I misinterpreting what you said?
XeroxCool@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Agreed. It’s 1/100 with old panels at 1/300 with modern high performance panels, being up to 300w/m.
raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Outside earths atmosphere. Only ~650 Watts/m^2 reach the surface of our planet.
borkborkbork@piefed.social 2 months ago
even if it only helped eek out 1% returns, on missions depending on an RTEG that could be years added.
worth keeping an eye on.