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The University of California, Davis (UC Davis) has been developing a prototype, according to Robologic Lab, by integrating thermoradiative panels so that they can generate energy due to radiative cooling.
The parallels between a conventional solar panel and the proposed new night ones were observed by Jeremy Munday, an electrical and computer engineer from UC Davis. You have to use different materials, but the physics is the same, he added.
A regular solar cell produces electricity by absorbing sunlight, allowing a voltage to appear around the system and flow for current, Science Daily said. Light is generated instead in these modern devices, and the current and voltage go in the opposite direction, but you still produce electricity.
To some, it might seem as if investigating and re-investigating cold fusion is a waste of time and resources, but some scientists don t see it that way. Yves Forestier/Getty Images
Back in March 1989, at a press conference in Salt Lake City, scientists Stanley Pons of the University of Utah and Martin Fleischmann of Great Britain s University of Southampton made a startling announcement. The researchers had managed to fuse the atomic nuclei of a hydrogen isotope to create helium the same sort of process that powers the sun and they d been able to do it at room temperature, without putting in more energy than the process produced, as this Wired retrospective from 2009 details.