Magnifying Solar Panels

A square meter of magnifying lens won t be much cheaper than a square meter of photovoltaic panels.

Magnifying solar panels. Are there ways to increase the amount of energy drawn from solar panels. If you ve ever set a leaf aflame with a magnifying glass you ll understand the basics of the photovoltaic cells that may. Solar hot water heaters are very old and work. Also it needs to be cooled because the panel loses efficiency when it gets hot.

One reader came up with this idea. On solar panels it is not so good unless the heat could be dispersed. Would a magnifying glass lens increase the amount of solar energy to a solar panel cell. A solar panel with a large magnifier fresnel or otherwise or a parabolic mirror will capture more energy but it will be highly directional and will need to be continuously aimed at the sun.

Magnifying glasses magnify the intensity of heat in a focused area but in order to be of beneficial use in solar panels there must be a mechanism to disperse the heat and cool down the system. Could you put some type of magnifying glass and set it at the right distance to increase the heat of the sun and give you more energy production from the solar panels possibly this subscriber had done a bit of reading on the mathematic military genius of one archimedes of syracuse. We call this type of system a solar concentrator. Magnifying solar panels energy as cheap as coal start up claims.

Heat is pure energy. People who own solar often inquire how or if panel production can somehow be increased or maximized. Heat makes a solar cell reduce the power output of a solar cell. Or would it just block the rays.

The lens does build heat on the solar panel surface. I m a bit confused because people haven t done it before and because people put glass and silicon in front of solar cells all the time. The only problem that i see with solar thermal systems is the use of diststilled water. All of the problems with solar come down to how diffuse solar energy is.

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To me this sounds like creative thinking with some valid reasoning behind the thought process but i doubt it works well if at all on ordinary solar panels.