{"id":106517,"date":"2020-05-04T11:11:37","date_gmt":"2020-05-04T18:11:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/this-solar-panel-like-device-can-generate-electricity-in-the-dark"},"modified":"2020-05-04T11:11:37","modified_gmt":"2020-05-04T18:11:37","slug":"this-solar-panel-like-device-can-generate-electricity-in-the-dark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/this-solar-panel-like-device-can-generate-electricity-in-the-dark","title":{"rendered":"This Solar Panel-Like Device Can Generate Electricity in the Dark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-solar-panel-like-device-can-generate-electricity-in-the-dark2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But a new invention could allow us to continue generating renewable energy even in the dark, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/09\/12\/science\/solar-energy-power-electricity.html\"><em>New York Times<\/em> reports<\/a>. Electrical engineer Aaswath Raman, at the University of California in LA, has come up with a device that can harness energy from a dark night sky to power an LED \u2014 hinting at a new frontier in renewable energy.<\/p>\n<p><b>Power of the Dark Side<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Raman\u2019s findings <a href=\"https:\/\/linkinghub.elsevier.com\/retrieve\/pii\/S254243511930412X\">were published<\/a> in the journal <em>Joule <\/em>today. His device \u2014 made from easy-to-find materials including Styrofoam and off-the-shelf aluminum parts \u2014 takes advantage of radiative cooling, the process that allows objects to release heat after the Sun sets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But a new invention could allow us to continue generating renewable energy even in the dark, the New York Times reports. Electrical engineer Aaswath Raman, at the University of California in LA, has come up with a device that can harness energy from a dark night sky to power an LED \u2014 hinting at a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-solar-power","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106517\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}