LINK Luminescent Solar Waveguide Windows Generate Energy From Inside and Out
"Rice University engineers have suggested a colorful solution to next-generation energy collection: Luminescent solar concentrators (LSCs) in your windows . . . The team designed and built foot-square “windows” that sandwich a conjugated polymer between two clear acrylic panels . . . [ The windows ] are designed to absorb light in a specific wavelength and guide it to panel edges lined with solar cells."
How would you like to live in a house with any color of windows?
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.If they can get energy from wavelengths that are visible can they get energy from other wavelengths?
dalefvictor
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Feb 28, 2021
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That is a good question. I wonder.
Which wavelength did you consider?
@AnonySchmoose Any and all, they all transmit photons, just at different wavelengths and frequencies.
Hm-mm, rose-colored glasses? Or brown-colored?
yvilletom
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Feb 27, 2021
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Warm colors.
Interesting development. Should be interesting to see where they take it.
t1nick
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Feb 27, 2021
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Probably, many an architect is already dreaming of buildings to use those.
Love that
bobwjr
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Feb 27, 2021
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I hope I will experience some that will last.
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