12 year Old Science Genius Invents New Type of Solar Power
February 19, 2012 by admin
Filed under Solar Energy
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@Herbie1199 : Yes, today’s panels harvest less than 100% of the radiation given off by the sun…but the plant kingdom is also less than 100% (and those are living entities that evolved enough to get energy from a photon). The very thought of separating out the various wavelengths should immediately get flagged as going to be less than 100% automatically, so current panels only try and retrieve energy from a specific range instead (although heat is a byproduct and can also be harvested).
@sabriathIt’s perfectly clear to me that an idea does not equal design, which doesn’t equal production ripeness. I saw this news a couple of years ago and was curious what happened with this idea, thus I googled a bit and landed on this youtube clip this week. So pardon me if your comment was a year ago.
I agree with you that one can only harvest 100% at best from the energy the sun radiates. If I understand the video correctly, todays panels harvest less than 100% and no UV light at all.
@Herbie1199 : Nice of you to stop by a year later….3D cannot yield 9 times more sunlight, you cannot gain more light than is produced, that’s a fail. Secondly, has this design been made, patented, produced, sold? Didn’t think so, sounds like a dead end to me…yes, he’s a kid, but the video maker puts that kid as a “genius” with a “revolutionary” idea, and that is what I’m criticizing. Black blocks light period, it ends up just being a bumpy 2D surface, no efficiency.
@sabriath
You even fail to grasp plain English. He said that 3D can yield 9 times more sun light and 10% more energy; even when it’s cloudy. You shouldn’t be so negative about some one who has an idea, especially if it’s just a kid. Maybe we owe him efficiency gain in the near future. So, if you got nothing, don’t criticise.
Some big oil bus people are going to be mad with this kid and must be planning of how to make his crime look like a suicide
Some big oil bus people are going to be mad with this kid and must be planning of how to make his crime look like a siucide
wow , now to washington were they will strip him of his invention and pay him off, way to go big oil !!!!!!!
3-D cells. Nice. Well done! This is something that COULD HAVE(I do not mean WOULD HAVE) been developed 30 years ago if Reagan wouldn’t have insisted on shutting down alternative exploration into solar technologies. Might it be because of the monetary influence of the Oil CORPORATIONS?
It was also said in the video that he “developed” a solar panel, though it appears that he had only a drawing. When I develop something, I have it in a physical, not conceptual form.
If that is what you call a genius what does that say about the average intelligence?
So… where are those amazing ultra solar panels? Three years later and not even a whisper in the market. What, petrol companies shut him up or something?
Nowadays A+ grade solar panels provide 12-14% absorption rate and there was even talk about an amazing breakthrough in the class of 30-32% with some new technology but 9 times more!?! That’s sound like 100% absorption! That cannot be! Right?
no guys, i heard the narrator at 1:20 say “it will yield 9 times more sunlight” which i don’t understand… how can anything besides the sun yield sunlight? typical media sensationalists.
lol that’s so simple, hardly a breakthrough.
@jovitheman : no shit sherlock, good of you to show up and tell me the obvious without reading what the fuck I just wrote. If you had read it, then you would have seen I already stated as such.
@sabriath are you joking or high? Solar panels surfaces are black in colour.
@quakelife24 invade?
@quakelife24 huh?
he invade that because he is Asian thats why
The simplist idea of think of a 3D solar panel could be the biggest break through in solar power ever. Instead of just one flat surface area light could hit 10 times more surface area. It’s like figuring out the earth isn’t flat.
too bad…corporations are gonna steal most of his money
@kevt007: I never mentioned clouds blocking….I said that the 3D “matrix” design cannot take in all light because the first layer will block some, and the next will block more…etc etc. It’s like putting a solar panel behind a solar panel, do you think it will work?
Obviously the “idea” of something being built, and the “ability” humans have to building it are completely different. Might as well say “i have an idea for a protoss pylon off starcraft”, can’t be built.
@sabriath True clouds do block visible light but they still allow UV to go thru. So it is still possible to get energy thru on cloudy days.
Lol was debunked. Still he had great ideas. They are working with new materials for IR and UV absorbtion dimension and size has nothing to do with it.
Hot damn ! just goes to show ya that sometimes you can think up bigger and better things when you have’nt been overly formally educated.good for you kid.keep on What If ‘ing and set the world on fire.
@d909kings : really? I am just in utter shock that anyone could say such bullshit, but you did…congratulations. Everything you said is just wrong, and I’m not even going to tell you why. Good luck flipping those burgers kid.