I literally just wrote this note for myself and then started searching for similar ideas and found your post. I was like, of course somebody in permies figured this out. LOL
“ To increase the efficiency of solar panels
So they’re talking about how different materials collect different parts of the solar spectrum. Silicon collects the red. This other material called Perovskite collects the blue. This made me think of Goethe. His studies on color and how things appear when they reflect through something else. That made me remember what I was reading in, I believe, the book, “the dancing wu li masters.” Something about how when you shine light onto, or through, certain elements you get this reflection, this pattern that shows up - and it has only the colors that don’t get absorbed by that element. So if I’m correct, you should be able to use a pretty basic experiment to see which elements collect which part of the solar spectrum.
Right now they’re trying to increase the efficiency of solar panels by combining several different materials that would collect different parts, or colors, of the solar spectrum. I don’t know shit, but in my mind it seems like if we were able to use a prism to separate out the light by color, then we could use a fraction of the materials to increase the efficiency. Instead of having to mix all of the materials across the entire solar cell, you could just have the material that collects that certain frequency of the light where it is being directed by the prism. I can’t say that I didn’t get this partly from the Pink Floyd cover. Credit where credit is due.
So, in my mind, what would happen is that the sun would shine down and hit a prism, and that prism would separate out the color frequencies of the light, and the solar cell collecting that light would only have the element or material that was specialized in collecting that certain frequency in each segment where that light is being directed, so silicon in the infrared frequency area, Perovskite in the ultraviolet frequency area, and so on.
I’m not a scientist. I don’t know if this would work, but I do have a mind that can connect extraordinarily disparate things. I don’t think I’m smarter than anybody, I just look at stuff from a broader perspective. I would think that a scientist would’ve already figured this out if it would work, but then again, maybe not. How do I get this to somebody who would be able to tell me if it’s already being considered?”
