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I wonder if it is feasible to make PV panels that concentrate the IR part of the light spectrum and guide it to a TVP unit through fiber optics.
by acje 7y ago
I wonder if it is feasible to make PV panels that concentrate the IR part of the light spectrum and guide it to a TVP unit through fiber optics.
- gnode 7y agoI don't see why you'd need fibre optics for that. Mirrors would work just fine, as in a concentrated solar plant.
- pjc50 7y agoI'm having trouble envisaging how this would work? What might work though is what I'm going to call Pink Floyd Concentrated Solar: collimate light from the sun over a large area into a beam, then run that beam through a prism. That would allow the use of solar cells with different efficiency bands. (I doubt this would make overall sense given the cost and size of optics, but it's fun to think about)