New Solar Collector That Can Even Work At Night

Idaho National Laboratory researchers have produce a new solar collector, that is so effective, it can even work at night.

With this new technology, millions of extremely small twists of metal are molded into banks of "microantennas", which can be placed on almost any material, including plastic sheets. These spiral shaped "microantennas" are about 1/25 the width of a human hair. They are so small that they resonate from the interaction with the sun's infrared rays. This resonation can be translated into energy. During the day, the Earth soaks up a lot of this infrared energy, which is then radiated out at night , enabling these microantennas to collect power even after the sun has set.
This conventional solar panels can convert into electricity about %20 of what hits and the researchers believe that they can hit an efficiency rating of about 80%.But we have a problem with this conventional solar panels,they are currently expensive to produce because the rely on high-grade silicon, this becoming increasingly expensive.
The good this is that they are working on it.

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