RAISING THE EFFICIENCY OF SOLAR PANELS

[HEMSING6]

If you put a solar panel in a vault of liquid nitrogen then used a solar collecting gps tracking dish with a filter to remove unwanted light and use a fiber optic cable  to transmit the light to a lens that disperses the light to the vaulted solar panel would you increase the panels efficiency?

[TomW]

We are not "ask.com" Might be worth the effort to at least try to search for some answers.

its just noon and you have opened 3 new threads so far. We like to help but you have to ask the right kind of questions that are at least peripherally topical to this forum.

Radiometers, nitrogen cooled solar & magnetic blockers all sound rather out of left field preambles to some Overunity attempt.

Might be good to explain what you really seek?

Sticking to at least marginally topical subjects would be good too.

Just advice on how to use this forum efficiently.

Tom

[veewee77]

Well,

You might increase the efficiency of the panel, but that would be irrelevant to the whole scheme of things. . . You gotta get the liquid nitrogen somehow. Then you have to keep it cold or it'll want to expand and run away with you, then you have to have a bunch of them to get any usable power output, then. . .

This is getting kinda weird here. . .

Sometimes in the end the most elegant solution is the best one. . .

Run the danged thing naked and anjoy the power it produces!

Doug

[Bruce S]

Run the danged thing naked and anjoy the power it produces!

Doug

Doug; YOU do mean run the solar panels naked, NOT the person right  . <LOL>
Just trying to clarify things here
Otherwise this post is going in a weird direction 

Cheers;
Bruce S

[DamonHD]

Don't know it doesn't work until you've tried it, right?

Rgds

Damon

[REdiculous]

You just need a panel with a scratch on the surface...buff it out and you've increased its efficiency. 

Putting it in liquid nitrogen may get it running closer to its theoretical max efficiency...but it still has the exact same efficiency curve(s) that it always had.

[DanG]

Raw - there would be so much fog and boiling almost no direct sun would reach the cells - especially if any sun did hit the PV cells only 12-15% is converted to electricity, 15% reflected or scattered with the rest being converted to heat which would boil N2 from every microscopic pore of the silica face. With back-plane cooling there would be instant condensation and frost on the front of the glass so no/low output. Reset and try again.

[Rover]

I would be more efficient to have the solar panels mounted outside the atmosphere (I'm not helping in that tower build  ).

You'd get the benefits of no atmosphere interference and cooling (depening on the planet shadow) ... ask the guys at NASA , and how important it is to the space station.

Have to agree though... this is way beyond the DIY stuff