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.
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