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Solar windows could harvest energy from sun and indoor light (www.ucl.ac.uk)
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[–] 1 point 1 month ago (4 children)

If you put enough of them in series you could power a lightbulb to shine on them.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 child)

    Indoor light part of this is silly, yes.

    E: the headline, and this sentence in the article "and, unlike traditional silicon-based solar panels, has potential to generate energy from indoor light as its composition can be adjusted to better absorb indoor light’s specific wavelengths." are doing the research no justice, which happens a lot. Are you keying in on that?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    I was mostly making the infinite energy joke.

    Assuming indoor lighting is modern, there shouldnt be much UV or IR to grab. So its taking visible light. will this grey out those frequencies/colors from the visual scene when looking thru as a window?

    Absorbing frequencies of indoor light that indoor lights produce would up efficency of course, and you'd be capturing energy that would just become light polution.

    But you would probably save money using reflective window cover and turning down the emitted power.

    Im sure some applications would likely make sense tho.

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