So you are using electricity to generate light which becomes heat so you can turn that back into electricity. 2nd Law of Thermodynamics still applies.
The goal is to eventually use actual sunlight rather than the artificial light produced at the Juelich experiment,
2. Once an idiot, always an idiot.
Oh, sorry, that’s the second law of thermodumb damn icks.
If you can believe in Global Warming™, believing in efficiency over 100% isn’t very hard.
Yeah, that’s exactly what I was thinking. But this is just an experimental rig they are using to simulate sunlight.
When/if their experiments prove fruitful, they’ll switch to natural sunlight; focusing that on the receiver instead of the artificial sun.
So now they can run experiments 24/7 instead of only during sunlit hours. Makes sense.