Posted on 04/01/2021 10:52:47 AM PDT by norwaypinesavage
A new prototype solar panel from the Technical Institute of Copenhagen (TIC) promises to be a game changer for renewable energy prospects....Traditional solar panels work by intercepting photons. Naturally the Earth is opaque to photons, so at night the panels are useless. But the Sun emits another kind of particle that shines right through the Earth, even at night: solar neutrinos....neutrinos pass through the Earth, they do change on their way through – a bit like the way white light is changed into a rainbow as it passes through a triangular prism.”
Keying in on this relationship, Pierrot was able to theorise a molecular structure that would be partly opaque to neutrinos, based on the precise orientation and atomic spacing of the lattice. A materials scientist at Bologna University produced a prototype to that specification that, according to Pierrot, “caught 10% of solar neutrinos"
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Then again it’s 4/1 and I’m on high alert.
Should hit the market in about 20 years, along with cold fusion, flying cars, etc., etc.
I call b.s.
Capitalist technology will solve the energy needs of the future.
Not government boondoggles.
WINNER
This is April Fools extraordinaire
“But the Sun emits another kind of particle that shines right through the Earth, even at night: solar neutrinos...”
If these solar neutrinos are zinging thru the earth at night...they’re zinging thru all of us. Should I be wearing SPF at night?
Short trading solar batteries that borrow electricity, use it to push photons back toward the sun, through anti-solar panels (light bulbs), will not only save green power, it will be a source of swindled wealth for day traders.
Keying in on this relationship, Pierrot was able to theorise a molecular structure that would be partly opaque to neutrinos, based on the precise orientation and atomic spacing of the lattice. A materials scientist at Bologna University produced a prototype to that specification that, according to Pierrot, “caught 10% of solar neutrinos".
No, the panels stop 10% of neutrinos, all right. What they’re not telling you is that the panels are made of a neutronium-like substance, and each one weighs approximately eleventy gazillion tons.
Nothing “shines” on the earth from the sun at night.
That’s as dumb as the old ethnic joke about the scientific team who is going to land on the sun, and avoid the heat by landing at night.
Amazing. The ability to generate power where there’s no energy to be found!
“Prototype” that doesn’t work and isn’t designed to work. It IS designed to attract investors — which WILL work.
Yes, this is an obvious April’s Fools Joke!
What about harvesting the earth’s core’s energy ?
Talk about global cooling in ten years !!
I am waiting for Nikola Tesla’s cosmic energy panels.
April Fools.
I’m a bit “neutral” about the whole thing.
Personally, I’d put my money on the neutrophonic confabulator.
An obvious April Fools joke and I got a chuckle out of it when I read it at WUWT.
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