Solar panels depend on raw sunlight to produce electricity and raw sunlight contains a number of various particles. The most important particle for solar energy is the ‘photon’. When photons from the sun are exposed to solar panels, the electrons inside the panel charge and create a usable energy current. When the sun goes down, the electrons are no longer exposed to sunlight and therefore will not charge to create any electricity.
The moon does not generate its own light like the sun does and the reason why the moon lights up is because the sun’s light energy reflects off the moon’s surface area, thus creating the moon to shine. The moon produces no photons and none of its own light so unfortunately, it is not able to charge solar panels.
If you were to put a solar panel on the moon itself, it would generate electricity from the sun’s light but only during Earth’s night time hours, because the sun lights up the moon when the sun has gone down. So in theory, the only way for a solar panel to generate electricity at night time, would be to stick it on the moon!
However, all is not lost. So we’ve established that the moon cannot charge solar panels, but what about the other light in the sky? That’s right- the stars. Like the sun has solar energy, stars have stellar energy. Stellar energy is the internal energy radiated by a star. If a material that is sensitive to stellar energy (the same way silicon is sensitive to solar energy) is used to create a ‘stellar panel’ then we might be able to combine the material with solar cells to generate energy from the light of the stars. Unfortunately this is yet to be made practicable but who’s to say it isn’t possible? Solar energy has come a long way as a result of research, so anything is possible.
Watch this space…
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You aint going to believe this but i got a red led to light up from moon light !
After sunset and before the moon produced light to reach the solar panels i hooked up the o scope and saw lots of rf interference in the signal as my lines are not buried .
But i watched the moon rise along with the voltage dc , it was definitely the moon light i was measuring as turning on and off my front lights had an effective difference of 1.5 volts to 2 volts !
About 11pm it reached its peak power and with all lights off outside and only moon light i tested the 14 volts ! from the moon ! first i used a 2.2k resistor and it lit poorly but did not drop the voltage on the scope but for .5 volts .
So i thought i would try 1k ohm and it brought voltage down to about 6 volts , so i took a chance and with no resistor hooked up the led and it lit right up nicely , not brightly but with no problem !
I might have to hook in the other three panels just for the heck of it ! And with watching the voltage varying up and down a bit right now at 12:17 i know its moon light and not stray rf interference , and it is polarity sensitive , that also rules out the rf.
Not much power there but it is there ! Next will be hooking up a ac coupled amplifier to actually listen to its audio . I am sure there will be very little there , but i am hoping for a aircraft with pulsing lights or strobes to make some noise on and off .
Then in the summer at night i want to see the spikes from light from lightning bolts !
I wonder if anyone has tried this stuff !
Going to bed , i got up before the sun this morning so i deserve it !
See ya ! O and i used 3 paralleled 230 watt 40 volt panels for this test !
DG