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Generate Solar Heat In The Dark

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Photoswitches, a breakthrough set of materials,
.. . that act as their own batteries,
. . . absorbing energy and releasing it on demand.

MIT researchers said “Exposing them to sunlight causes them to absorb energy and
. . . jump from one configuration to the other,
. . . which is then stable for long periods of time.”

To liberate that energy all you have to do,
. . . is expose the molecules to a small amount of light, heat or electricity and
. . . when they switch back to the other shape they emit heat.
In effect, they behave as rechargeable thermal batteries:
. . . taking in energy from the sun, storing it indefinitely, and
. . . then releasing it on demand.

2014-04-15 Source: Generate Solar Heat in the Dark


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