Solar cells at nighttime…seems like an oxymoron.
As it turns out, radiative cooling may also be our ticket to a nighttime renewable energy source for countless people across the globe…In a new study published on Tuesday in the journal Applied Physics Letters, researchers at Stanford University created a photovoltaic (PV) cell, which collects and converts solar energy to electricity, that generates a sizable amount of power by soaking up energy emitted by radiative cooling.
For more, check out this Daily Beast/MSN story.