How to Build a Low-tech Solar Panel? (solar.lowtechmagazine.com)

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[-] PlaidBaron@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

I love Low Tech magazine. Half their articles are horribly impractical or not very well thought out but I genuinely still love it.

[-] dillekant@slrpnk.net 6 points 1 year ago

Same. People talk about good design but I've not seen design as beautiful as lowtech.

[-] PegasusAssistant@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

So, thermocouples are commonly used in industry to make temperature probes, typically in the form of a coil of wire containing two conductors of different metals. I wonder if it'd be possible to get ahold of some thermocouple wire and put together a solar cell at home?

[-] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 year ago

This is such a wickedly interesting article, I had no idea there was a totally different method of solar technology like this. Very strange that there hasn't been more widely known research in this area, or more home-built attempts. Crazy that they were eventually able to achieve 17% efficiency.

Thanks for sharing this article!

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