Chinese Scientists Have Invented Solar Panels That Can Generate Power At Night

[Just AnotherPerson]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYxp0f_IKHg

[countryboy]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYxp0f_IKHg

LOL! You will literally believe anything. Perpetual motion was debunked literally decades, if not centuries ago. You cannot overcome the laws of physics.

[Just AnotherPerson]

LOL! You will literally believe anything. Perpetual motion was debunked literally decades, if not centuries ago. You cannot overcome the laws of physics.
LoL to you too, it is not perpetual motion. The friction of the rain falling creates the energy. Watch the vid it is not that long.

[Common Sense]

That's not really a solar panel then.

Its also not a perpetual motion machine...it's just converting kinetic energy into electricity.

[countryboy]

LoL to you too, it is not perpetual motion. The friction of the rain falling creates the energy. Watch the vid it is not that long.
Lol, then it's not a solar panel.

[Just AnotherPerson]

That's not really a solar panel then.

Its also not a perpetual motion machine...it's just converting kinetic energy into electricity.

Perhaps they will put them on a solar panel somehow. Otherwise I don't think they would have dubbed them solar panels. But check out this amazing article though. Here are some solar panels being worked on in Idaho national Laboratory, they will truly create energy at night off of infrared light, for at least a few hours after sunset. We are making progress. This is cool.

See more at the link https://inhabitat.com/solar-panels-work-at-night/

Excerpt:

Despite the enormous untapped potential of solar energy, one thing is for sure- photovoltaics are only as good as the sun’s rays shining upon them. However, researchers at the Idaho National Laboratory (http://www.inel.gov/) are close to the production of a super-thin solar film (http://www.inl.gov/featurestories/2007-12-17.shtml) that would be cost-effective, imprinted on flexible materials, and would be able to harvest solar energy even after sunset!

The technique involves the embedding of square spirals of conducting metal onto a sheet of plastic (http://www.inl.gov/featurestories/2007-12-17.shtml), each of which, referred to as a “nanoantenna,” just 1/25 the diameter of a human hair. The nanoantennas absorb infrared energy, which is absorbed by the earth during the day and released even hours after the sun goes down.

[countryboy]

Perhaps they will put them on a solar panel somehow. Otherwise I don't think they would have dubbed them solar panels. But check out this amazing article though. Here are some solar panels being worked on in Idaho national Laboratory, they will truly create energy at night off of infrared light, for at least a few hours after sunset. We are making progress. This is cool.

See more at the link https://inhabitat.com/solar-panels-work-at-night/

Excerpt:

Despite the enormous untapped potential of solar energy, one thing is for sure- photovoltaics are only as good as the sun’s rays shining upon them. However, researchers at the Idaho National Laboratory (http://www.inel.gov/) are close to the production of a super-thin solar film (http://www.inl.gov/featurestories/2007-12-17.shtml) that would be cost-effective, imprinted on flexible materials, and would be able to harvest solar energy even after sunset!

The technique involves the embedding of square spirals of conducting metal onto a sheet of plastic (http://www.inl.gov/featurestories/2007-12-17.shtml), each of which, referred to as a “nanoantenna,” just 1/25 the diameter of a human hair. The nanoantennas absorb infrared energy, which is absorbed by the earth during the day and released even hours after the sun goes down.
Soooo, instead of admitting you were wrong, you just press ahead. And you wonder why people give you a hard time.

The honest title to this thread would be: "An unverifiable youtube video makes the unbelievable claim that Chinese scientists have invented a device that produces energy from rain, an alleged prototype is expected in 3 to 5 years. Oh, and never mind the picture of the perpetual motion machine on the title screen of the unverifiable youtube video".

[countryboy]

That's not really a solar panel then.

Its also not a perpetual motion machine...it's just converting kinetic energy into electricity.
Right, just a picture of a perpetual motion machine on the title screen of the video, lol.

[Just AnotherPerson]

Lol, then it's not a solar panel.
No they really are solar panels. Here is a link http://sciencenewsjournal.com/future-solar-panels-will-generate-energy-raindrops/

Excerpt:


Chinese scientists are now able to create electricity with the assistance of raindrops. This is thanks to a thin layer of graphene (http://sciencenewsjournal.com/scientists-create-ultra-thin-graphene-sheet-that-can-power-a-house/) they use to coat their solar cells (http://sciencenewsjournal.com/thinnest-lightest-solar-cells-on-the-planet-unveiled/) during testing. Graphene is known for its conductivity, among many other benefits. All it takes is a mere one-atom thick graphene layer for an excessive amount of electrons to move as they wish across the surface. In situations where water is present, graphene binds its electrons with positively charged ions. Some of you may know this process to be called as the Lewis acid-base interaction (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_acids_and_bases).These new solar cells can be stimulated by incident light on sunny days and raindrops when it’s raining, yielding an optimal energy conversion efficiency of 6.53 % under 1.5 atmosphere thickness irradiation and current over µA, along with a voltage of hundreds of mV by simulated raindrops.

[countryboy]

No they really are solar panels. Here is a link http://sciencenewsjournal.com/future-solar-panels-will-generate-energy-raindrops/

Excerpt:


Chinese scientists are now able to create electricity with the assistance of raindrops. This is thanks to a thin layer of graphene (http://sciencenewsjournal.com/scientists-create-ultra-thin-graphene-sheet-that-can-power-a-house/) they use to coat their solar cells (http://sciencenewsjournal.com/thinnest-lightest-solar-cells-on-the-planet-unveiled/) during testing. Graphene is known for its conductivity, among many other benefits. All it takes is a mere one-atom thick graphene layer for an excessive amount of electrons to move as they wish across the surface. In situations where water is present, graphene binds its electrons with positively charged ions. Some of you may know this process to be called as the Lewis acid-base interaction (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_acids_and_bases).These new solar cells can be stimulated by incident light on sunny days and raindrops when it’s raining, yielding an optimal energy conversion efficiency of 6.53 % under 1.5 atmosphere thickness irradiation and current over µA, along with a voltage of hundreds of mV by simulated raindrops.


Soooo, as long as it's raining at night, and sunny in the day, we're golden.

[Just AnotherPerson]

Soooo, as long as it's raining at night, and sunny in the day, we're golden.

I would love solar panels like this where I live in the pacific northwest. It would be great to generate electricity from rain for several months out of the year and then energy in the summer when it is sunny. It is really cool.

We are making a lot of advancements. China also has large floating solar farms Here is an awesome link https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/06/china-worlds-largest-floating-solar-power/

We also have solar towers. This is cool technology too. These are being used in the Mojave desert in the US and in Spain. https://cosmosmagazine.com/technology/how-solar-power-towers-generate-electricity-at-night

I don't know about you but I am interested in new technologies.