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.
“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.
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.
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.
Climate change is a still a hoax either way - but I’ll take cheaper energy any day.
How does this work again? Cold Fusion maybe. Sure... sure. Talk to me tomorrow about this, and “I will give you your opinion”, said the climate charlatan.
This article is an April Fool’s joke.
The only problem for the team was finding a material that would intercept a particle that is extremely reluctant to interact with any ordinary matter. “Neutrinos only interact via the weak force,” Pierrot explains, demonstrating a salt-shaker dodging around a pepper mill. “That means you have to bring the neutrino extremely close to another particle before they notice each other. But what not a lot of people know is that although 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 in at least one of the three flavours.” He laughs. “Personally I like vanilla!”
The NightShine solar panel is still in its testing phase at the moment. The magical material may still be a trade secret, but we know it is expensive, and the panel’s lifetime is uncertain. But Pierrot is confident he’s onto a winner. “If we can catch 10% now, in ten years we’ll be able to catch 30%. This technology has the potential to be a game-changer in the fight against climate heating. By the way, are you single? You have the most incredible blue eyes!”
Pierrot’s work was funded by, among others, the European Union Onion Growers’ Union (EUOGU).
Send me a big grant and I will catch 20% and power half the world.
And how many more acres will these panels take than the ‘regular’ ones that need 43.5 acres to produce 1 (one) Megawatt of electricity? Just pave over the entire surface of the USA to make only a small percent of coal, gas, and nuclear power generation.