Timeline for Can mirrors on the moon allow solar panels to operate at night?
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| Jul 11, 2023 at 21:48 | vote | accept | cowlinator | ||
| Nov 25, 2021 at 15:41 | comment | added | FluidCode | The anti solar cell might work if it is a thermocouple taking energy from the heat flowing in the sky from the ground warmed up during the day, but with such a small gradient the efficiency would be small. Notice that the article makes a claim on the amount of energy produced without specifying the amount of radiant area to produce that energy. | |
| Nov 25, 2021 at 11:29 | comment | added | N. Virgo | @Philipp it can't be done. It's called the "law of conservation of entendue". It turns out that if you found a way to break it you could use it to build a perpetual motion machine, so we can be pretty certain it's not possible. | |
| Nov 25, 2021 at 11:23 | comment | added | Philipp | "you can't narrow down the effect of any one mirror to an area on Earth that looks smaller than the Sun from the same perspective on the Moon" Certainly not with flat mirrors. But what if you use parabolic mirrors to focus the rays of the sun to a smaller area? | |
| Nov 25, 2021 at 1:26 | history | answered | Mike Serfas | CC BY-SA 4.0 |