{"id":172665,"date":"2023-09-23T21:24:23","date_gmt":"2023-09-24T02:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/stanford-engineers-invent-a-solar-panel-that-generates-electricity-at-night"},"modified":"2023-09-23T21:24:23","modified_gmt":"2023-09-24T02:24:23","slug":"stanford-engineers-invent-a-solar-panel-that-generates-electricity-at-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/stanford-engineers-invent-a-solar-panel-that-generates-electricity-at-night","title":{"rendered":"Stanford engineers invent a solar panel that generates electricity at night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/stanford-engineers-invent-a-solar-panel-that-generates-electricity-at-night2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you can get up to a watt per square meter, it would be very attractive from a cost perspective,\u201d Assawaworrarit says.<\/p>\n<p><b> The invention taps into a source of energy that\u2019s easily overlooked<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The Earth is constantly receiving a tremendous amount of energy from the Sun, to the tune of 173,000 terrawatts. Clouds, particles in the atmosphere, and reflective surfaces like snow-covered mountains immediately reflect 30 percent of that energy out into space. The rest of it ends up warming the land, oceans, clouds, atmosphere, and everything else on the planet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIf you can get up to a watt per square meter, it would be very attractive from a cost perspective,\u201d Assawaworrarit says. The invention taps into a source of energy that\u2019s easily overlooked The Earth is constantly receiving a tremendous amount of energy from the Sun, to the tune of 173,000 terrawatts. Clouds, particles in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,1633,8,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-solar-power","category-space","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172665","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172665\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}