{"id":26056,"date":"2016-05-25T19:33:06","date_gmt":"2016-05-26T02:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/nanotechnology-could-enable-use-of-solar-energy-at-night"},"modified":"2017-04-24T20:44:34","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T03:44:34","slug":"nanotechnology-could-enable-use-of-solar-energy-at-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/nanotechnology-could-enable-use-of-solar-energy-at-night","title":{"rendered":"Nanotechnology could enable use of Solar Energy at night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nanotechnology-could-enable-use-of-solar-energy-at-night.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Using the power of nano to solar power our homes at night.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>MIT researchers have built a new experimental solar cell which could greatly enhance power efficiency. The \u201cShockley-Queisser\u2019 limit is the estimated maximum efficiency of a solar cell, which is commonly about 32%; that means almost 70% of energy is wasted in the form of heat.<\/p>\n<p>One way to reduce energy loss is by stacking cells. However if sunlight could be turned into heat and then be re-emitted as light, the solar cells could utilize more energy. Solar cells work best with visible light which occurs midway of the radiation spectrum. As a result the radiations with shorter and greater wavelengths usually go to waste.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers at MIT have developed a structure of carbon <strong>nano-tubes <\/strong>that will function between the sun and solar cell. These carbon nano-tubes are very good absorbents of light (all types of radiation) and convert it to heat; heat is easier to store unlike light.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/thehackednews.com\/2016\/05\/nanotechnology-enable-use-solar-energy-night\/\">http:\/\/thehackednews.com\/2016\/05\/nanotechnology-enable-use-solar-energy-night\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using the power of nano to solar power our homes at night. MIT researchers have built a new experimental solar cell which could greatly enhance power efficiency. The \u201cShockley-Queisser\u2019 limit is the estimated maximum efficiency of a solar cell, which is commonly about 32%; that means almost 70% of energy is wasted in the form [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nanotechnology","category-solar-power","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26056","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\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26056"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50405,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26056\/revisions\/50405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}