This isn’t yet a viable technology, even in the lab, but I thought it was interesting enough to share, and definitely screams solarpunk if it became viable in the future after much more research and development.
No. It’s not a solar panel. It’s photoshop. If you watch the video, the tech they are discussing is in the “two alligator clips connected to a dime size piece of material” stage.
I made sure to mention that in the post body text, especially as Matt annoyingly often makes videos about pie in the sky tech. I just thought it was neat that, in concept at least, this technology could become something we see in the world in 20 or 30 years.
And producing an amount of energy that would he nearly impossible to measure with off-the-shelf gear
If a headline ends with “?” the awnser ist almost certainly NO.
Was that comment intended for a different post?
No, the preview pic is “this is a solar panel?” with a red arrow.
Ah, the clickbait thumbnail. I was confused since you said the headline was a question.
Yeah that might have been confusing.
Great, we’ll have to water the solar panels one of these days.
