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Photovoltaics edit

Thank you for providing more sources for your section on "Nighttime solar panels". I would recommend that this section more properly be placed in the Thermoelectric generator article, since that is really what these design concepts represent. And I would put them under a section labeled "Research" to indicate that they have not yet been deployed in large scale installations. The title and abstract of the ACS Photonics article[1] is misleading, since the system they are describing does not operating by "optically coupling with deep space" but rather by thermal radiation. WikiDan61ChatMe!ReadMe!! 14:20, 20 March 2020 (UTC)Reply

References

  1. ^ Deppe, Tristan; Munday, Jeremy N. (2020). "Nighttime Photovoltaic Cells: Electrical Power Generation by Optically Coupling with Deep Space". ACS Photonics. 7 (1): 1–9. doi:10.1021/acsphotonics.9b00679.
On further reading and research, I still don't believe this material is relevant to the photovoltaics, for reasons I have discussed at Talk:Photovoltaics. Please respond there before restoring the information. WikiDan61ChatMe!ReadMe!! 15:06, 20 March 2020 (UTC)Reply