
Every Color Of The Rainbow Is An Energy Source
October 29th, 2008
Rainbow Energy We have all enjoyed watching rainbows and at some point wanted to travel to the end of them for those fabled pots of gold. We can make out the distinct seven colors of the rainbows. But what we see as colors are actually different frequencies or energy levels of the sunlight. A solar panel converts some portion of sun light into energy for our use.
The greatest drawback of the solar energy is that solar panels can only capture a fraction of sunlight and only that fraction can be converted into energy. Scientists are trying to use different materials that can trap the maximum energy available from the sun rays and transform it into usable energy. We all hope that disadvantages of the solar panels will be eliminated or minimized in near future.
Scientists at the Ohio State University have blended electrically conductive plastic with metals such as molybdenum and titanium to create the hybrid material for solar panels. They are of the opinion that this new blended material will remove two important obstructions of the solar power. First it will seize all the energy of the visible sunlight. Secondly it will generate electrons in a manner that it will not be difficult to capture them.
This hybrid material works on the same principle as other solar panels do. The material produces electricity when sunlight energizes the atoms of the material, and some of the electrons in those atoms are knocked loose.....
full article here
No comments:
Post a Comment