George Cove, a forgotten solar power pioneer, may have built a highly efficient photovoltaic panel 40 years before Bell Labs engineers invented silicon cells. If proven to work, his design could lead to less complex and more sustainable solar panels.
I love Low Tech magazine. Half their articles are horribly impractical or not very well thought out but I genuinely still love it.
So, thermocouples are commonly used in industry to make temperature probes, typically in the form of a coil of wire containing two conductors of different metals. I wonder if it’d be possible to get ahold of some thermocouple wire and put together a solar cell at home?
Same. People talk about good design but I’ve not seen design as beautiful as lowtech.