/sci/ - Science & Math

I happen to know someone who experiments with radiation, finding ways to nullify the effects on organisms, but this is quite interesting. Have you confirmed if the original article mentioned the radiation gathering was efficient?

We SS13 now

WOW A SOLAR PANEL WOWWWWWWWWWW

>>10801056
>what is reading the article
yeah, it's a 4chan

>>10801056
Yeah because solar panels can use ionizing radiation...

>>10801035
What's the lithium hydrite used for? The only usecase that I can find when searching the internet is moderating radiation. Has it another purpose than that?

>>10801035
Let’s light up chernobyl

>>10801335
why was the wtc building referred to as ground zero?
usually that phrase is only used to describe the site of a nuclear detonation?

>>10801035
95% of this promising research gets bough out by big oil companies or just big industrial companies/corporations and never see the light of day again.
Why do you think we havent got fusion in 2019? Because there is still a fuckload of oil to be extracted and burned, when production is actually nearing to the end then coincidently big advances in fusion will happen.

>>10801035
>creating electricity with another word for magnetism

Lol, how stupid are we gonna get?

>>10801398
Not as stupid as you are. Explain your point if you're not just a troll.

>>10801035
>No efficiency qouted

So it's probably jack shit and not worth our time.

>>10801391
No Anon, we don't have it because "promising" research doesn't mean shit. You can't always scale up an idea economically.

>>10802854
>So it's probably jack shit and not worth our time.
The majority of solar panels produced today are like that

>>10802863
Solar panals do amortise after 4 years if they are used to preheat steam cycles. But yes, I think in general people who buy it to put on their roof etc. are wasting their time.

>>10802854
Muh quotes

>>10801035

How do you think Radiation is measured in the first place you fucking morons?

>>10802884
not all solar tech is worthless domestic solar heating has much better returns on investment
solar thermal either with flat plate or vac cylinders work great for domestic water heating though. and dumping summer heat underground for thermal storage works fairly well and helps with winter heating.

>>10803006
We made a geiger-müller counter that doesn't require electricity, but produces it!

>How do you think Radiation is measured in the first place you fucking morons?

>>10803142
He has a solid point, that's why this shit is worthless without the efficiencies. Of course you can get a fucking current off X phenomenon, that doesn't mean you'll be able to produce electricity for it on a consumer level.

>>10803142
>>10803245

I'm right and you are wrong. A geiger-müller works by ionizing a gas cloud and thus producing electricity.

Don't ever post or act like a scientist ever again you fucking half witted monkeys.

>>10803283
The ionized gas ALLOWS the current to flow, by reducing the resistance, it doesn't create a voltage, retard.

>>10801035
>Creating Electricity With Radiation
>Radiation
So......like solar panels, steam engines, and TEGs? Fucking popsci garbage. Good luck with their grant chasing vapor science.

>>10801056
>>10801335
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>>10801398
>>10802854
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>>10803529
What's up with all these faggots shitting up an otherwise interesting thread? Is this what /sci/ is made of?

>>10802884
depending on where you live, and consumption panels can pay for themselves in under 5 years, after that it's 25+ years of free electricity.

>>10801035
Von Neumann constructors WHEN?

>>10801056
>>10803529
retards that don't know solar panels only work in the visible spectrum

>>10804358
The majority of /sci/ are brain dead retards /pol/ shitposters are a better alternative to them

>>10803283
Holy shit, you actually think a circuit, when completed, is creating electricity. When you turn the knob for your water tap, do you think that water is being created by the valve?

>>10804577
I think the clue is in the name PHOTOvoltaic. The rest of the wavelengths the sun gives off are useless for creating energy because they are so weak. If the sun were much cooler then it'd give off far stronger radio waves and you might be able to do something with that.

>>10804358
>>10804591
This is a fucking worthless popsci thread.

>>10804371
Are you including efficiency degredation in that? Last time I was weighing this the panels were only at 100% design efficiency for the first year or so.

>>10802045
What do you think "radiation" actually is? It RADIATES. It is essentially magnetism .

>>10804358
>this is so interesting, we're rediscovering how cathodes and anodes work!

>>10805844
It's not "essentially" magnetism, magnetism is one of the vector components of it. The other is, wait for it, electric

>>10805840
Not him, but degradation over time isn't very much. The problem isn't the panels. The problem is the batteries/eneregy storage system. This affects all non-utility power generation that uses energy storage. Battery tech simply put just fucking sucks balls. The energy density is terrible, the holding time is terrible, and so on... With grid-tied systems that don't use energy storage, PV panels are usually well worth the expense. Basically, those systems are just solar panels that are only used during the day and at any other time you use grid utility power. Since that use is at night, most people don't use much.

>>10805880
>>10805844
Oh for fuck sake. The hint for this problem is in the term, "Electromagnetic Radiation." The problem here is that a permeate magnet doesn't radiate a field. You need electrical flow + magnetic field to produce EM radiation. Even then that is still not correct in 100% of cases since even an electromagnet is also not radiating. Ergo, this has nothing to do with magnetism. So, you end up with tards with only half right answers tarding up /sci/ like the two of you are doing.

Sorry, I don't feel like breaking out inline math codes or I'd go full autist. Research, "Poynting vector."