CHANGING TIDE IN THE RENEWABLE ENERGY SECTOR
SOLAR PANELS THAT WORK EVEN AT NIGHT Before now we were told and knew that solar panels are only efficient and effective during the day when the sun is out and shinning. However the tide is changing as scientist are consistently and tirelessly looking for ways/means to ensure achieving round the clock supply of electricity. Conventional solar panels only work in daylight, so you need expensive battery storage to enable solar-produced power to be used at night. Now a team at Stanford University in the US has tested solar panels that keep generating electricity round the clock. Who says solar panels don’t work in the dark? In a breakthrough promising 24-hour reliable renewable energy, scientists have tested panels that keep producing power even when the sun goes down. Their innovation takes advantage of the fact that solar panels cool at night. Hence, Power can be generated from the temperature difference between the cooling panels and th