{"id":17389,"date":"2015-09-16T15:47:19","date_gmt":"2015-09-16T22:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/new-solar-panels-that-work-at-night"},"modified":"2017-04-16T07:47:31","modified_gmt":"2017-04-16T14:47:31","slug":"new-solar-panels-that-work-at-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/new-solar-panels-that-work-at-night","title":{"rendered":"New Solar Panels That Work At Night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/inhabitat.com\/2008\/02\/04\/solar-panels-that-work-at-night\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Despite the enormous untapped potential of solar energy, one thing is for sure- photovoltaics are only as good as the sun\u2019s rays shining upon them. However, researchers at the <a target=\"new\" href=\"http:\/\/www.inel.gov\/\">Idaho National Laboratory<\/a> are close to the production of a <a target=\"new\" href=\"http:\/\/www.inl.gov\/featurestories\/2007-12-17.shtml\">super-thin solar film<\/a> that would be cost-effective, imprinted on flexible materials, and would be able to harvest solar energy even after sunset!<\/p>\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lzy attachment-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-solar-panels-that-work-at-night.jpg\" data-original=\"http:\/\/assets.inhabitat.com\/files\/solarnight2.jpg\" title=\"Solar cells, solar power at night, idaho national laboratory, solar technology, solar film, nanotechnology solar, nanoantennas\" alt=\"\" width=\"75\" height=\"75\"\/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lzy attachment-thumbnail\" src=\"\" data-original=\"http:\/\/assets.inhabitat.com\/files\/solarnight23.jpg\" title=\"Solar cells, solar power at night, idaho national laboratory, solar technology, solar film, nanotechnology solar, nanoantennas\" alt=\"\" width=\"75\" height=\"75\"\/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lzy attachment-thumbnail\" src=\"\" data-original=\"http:\/\/assets.inhabitat.com\/files\/nightsolarpanels2.jpg\" title=\"Nighttime solar panels, night solar panels, night photovoltaics, Solar cells, solar power at night, idaho national laboratory, solar technology, solar film, nanotechnology solar, nanoantennas\" alt=\"\" width=\"75\" height=\"75\"\/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/inhabitat.com\/solar-panels-work-at-night\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the enormous untapped potential of solar energy, one thing is for sure- photovoltaics are only as good as the sun\u2019s rays shining upon them. However, researchers at the Idaho National Laboratory are close to the production of a super-thin solar film that would be cost-effective, imprinted on flexible materials, and would be able to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,4,1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-nanotechnology","category-solar-power","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17389","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=17389"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45874,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17389\/revisions\/45874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}