Artificial Leaf DIY selfmade very cheap solar cell

[triffid]

Think of raising tulips on the moon and mars!triffid

[onthecuttingedge2005]

actually what you all want is a Quantum Dot LASER photoelectric dye.

the dye multiplies the photons by lasing the medium and producing higher photopressures and photoreactions.

it doesn't necessarily need to be a dye, it could be a solid of some sort.

Multiplying photons is the best way to achieve super high efficiencies in a photovoltaic system.

a photovoltaic system that uses black body radiation could in a sense power itself from its own thermal emissions.

just about everything gives off black body radiation.

there are a lot of options on the table but multiplying photons is on top of the list.

Jerry

[the_big_m_in_ok]

I did this one summer day at my dads house in the 1960's and surprised my grandma.It turned a beautiful green.I was about 15.Triffid

@anyone
Who knows if the chlorophyll can decompose like a leaf in sunlight like most organic compounds?
If so, one has to continually make solar cells to generate power, right?

--Lee

[Cherryman]

What about fosfor?   Or Fluor?

[onthecuttingedge2005]

if you want a solarvoltaic system to generate perpetual energy then converting Black body radiation at high efficiencies would do just that, a black body radiation solar cell would only need 'self body waste heat' to convert to electrical current. 

it would be sort of like a very efficient thermoelectric pile sensitive to thermal self emissions on the top surface layer.

this could be included into the visible spectrum, top layer of cell converts black body radiation to electricity, each layer below that would convert the next highest frequencies to electricity. each layer is its own band gap filter proceding to the bottom of the cells substrate layers which would be in the high UV range.

a simple V gap frequency mote would act as a filter to allow broad spectrum band gaps, the top of the V is Black Body gap and the bottom of the V is High UV band gap filter.

so we would have a substrate that would be like this; [VVVVVVVVVV].

the picture below simply shows black body radiation transition.