The news:
Scientists believe that plastic sheets containing billions of nano-antennas that collect heat energy generated by the sun and other sources could dramatically improve the use of a type of energy we are all aware of, but have no use for so far – heat.
That makes me think about changing the name of my blog to “The Nano-antenna”…:)
Why it’s important:
- Until now the use of solar energy was based on solar panels, but this can change.
- Nano-antennas collect mid-infrared rays radiated by the earth, so energy can be generated at all times.
- It’s important that this technology even home computers could use the heat emitted to power themselves.
- The problem is that even if they can harvest the energy they didn’t manage to convert it to electricity.