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Hey Ziroth! The SOLIX system sounds interesting, but do you have an explanation of the marketing terms they use ("Thermal boosting", "InfiniPower", "Barrel Effect")? The web page doesn't go into any technical detail, which makes it sound like pure marketing without any technical meaning, but I'd love to be proven wrong.

Could you please make a video about this fluorescent solar panels made by this student from the Philippines?

Sod off with your scam, thinks it's smart, dodgy powerbank system. Nickel Iron batteries are all we ever needed or wanted. No computers need apply. Last a century, PROVEN. And will never catch fire. Not Patent able of course. Still available for critical industrial, military, ship, aircraft use. And home off grid power systems. Fro. China. US battery makers killed US manufacture in the 1970s. Cause they didn't like high energy density batteries that are cheap to make, safe and last several lifetimes.

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That was my first thought! There must be something to that, they could use much smaller packaging and still get that directionality, even with the large LEDs used in spotlights.

Yarp. Fresnel lens caps/covers for LEDs have been around a while. Not sure why they're not more widely used. I remember in my high school days being fascinated by the classrom overhead projecter and its Fresnel lens.

Bingo! I thought the same thing at first, but the distortion that is created by a Fresnel lens creates some distortion See my stand alone comment.

I knew they looked familiar

Except it's not a lens. Making outer surface less conducive to internal reflection improves the amount of light that escapes, but it becomes extremely diffused - the opposite of a lens.

Yes, I suspect you're referring to the development GaN (gallium nitride), which gave us superbrite blue LEDS, ~1993. Cree actually made SiC (silicon carbide) blue LEDs, in the mid 1980s. I remember them first sold for over $50 each, ~1985. The price dropped to under a buck ~1990, and I actually designed them into a product, at that time. In 1994 I was calling in an routine order to Digi-key, which included the Cree product, and found that all their LED products had been pulled. Later I found out, it was due to the introduction of the new GaN LEDs , coming out of Japan. Shortly there after bright blue LEDs where everywhere ! This also was the breakthrough that made LED tech for illumination, possible, and finally killed the incandescent lamp. Well, after ~20 years of ramp up.

@@michaelmoorrees3585 Absolutely right, all achieved by a lone Japanese scientist as I recall.

Yes, and they left out the original inventor of the led from the Nobel prize. 🤨

@@Tight4Skin That’s awful. It was a world game changer and he achieved it on his own.

You lazy wankers talk all around the inventor of the Blue LED but never mention the name of the person or the company: Shuji Nakamura of Nichia Corporation

The next generation of LED grow lights are going to be insane!!! 🌅🔥

The only problem here is the optical transmission efficiency of the substrate being used, The principle is sound on the surface, but the difference in light absorption at productive angles and wavelength pass-thru may be needed to get the higher efficiencies that they are talking about in the output of LEED light. But yes, you are thinking about this constructively.

Engineered texturing is already a major topic in solar panel research. Most normal current industry standard glass faced solar panels are really quite shiny when viewed from the right angle to the sun. Thats bad. All that light should become electrons, not glare. Antireflexive techniques, smaller profile current collectors, a lot can be done to reduce this.

Dodging the cs flash irl gonna get meta 🔥🔥

@@Zonkotron Solar panels are already coated in anti-glare compound. It's a complete no-brainer considering that any reflected light is a straight loss of power. The outer surface must be smooth in order to prevent dust buildup, which is a lot worse for efficiency than small amount of leftover reflectivity.

This could also mean that the new output efficiency requirement the US government has put in place won't have to take out full spectrum lighting!!! 🤯

more refractive surfaces to create more light is not a new concept...just our ability to work well with tinier stuff has.... car blinkers...bike reflectors...road signs... diamond rings...glitter in paint... all use this technology and a better light blub only runs the old light bulb company out of business.... a tiny beam of light pointed at a diamond with proper angles cut could light a room like some indiana jones scene

You mean that the lifetime of bulbs would remain exactly the same while manufacturing costs drop considerably... Do you think that every LED bulb on the market being severely overdriven is an oversight?

@@Bobo-ox7fj They're not cheaper or longer lasting, just more efficient. They produce more light with the same amount of electricity. This means very marginal reduction of power grid load from using fewer bulbs, which power companies don't oppose (the same way they didn't oppose LED bulbs, and back in the day they even gave away short lifespan high efficiency incandescent bulbs for free). And this means substantial increase in battery lifetime for portable illumination devices, which they'll gladly take even if these LEDs are way more expensive.

How about stuff like OLED screens?​@@michaelbuckers

Well, in the end its all physics. Nature had billions of years to try and fail and try again. ;-)

It's all proof of the absurdity of the atheism argument.

@@CommodoreGreg kinda but reminder that the natural world had a LOT more time

Evidence that God is the best designer there is 😊

indicator lamps don't require to be brighter. This improvement still adds to the over all cost of manufacture. This tech is for LED illumination where the excess heat of over driving them shortens their life and reduces efficiency.

I get you. These will become the mass produced standard and show up in every cheap device. I recently got a new router from my ISP with green LEDs that already now cast shadows on the wall 6 m away. ^^

@@mleise8292 on my last monitor I had to put tacky over the blue light because it would be on when the monitor was plugged in and off.

​@@carlm1595also means that they can be driven with less power for the same output... equalling power saving and longer run times (assuming batteries) Good also for street lights... same power but more brightness. In NZ where they replaced the old halogen lights... the smaller side street lights suck and you have dark areas where there were none before. They halted the rollout to see what could be done to address it. But I don't know if they found a solution. At the very least no retrofitting for existing replaced lights.

Or to put it in terms that a RF person would use they need to do better impedance matching.😉

I remember earlier LEDs being such energy hogs. To get an reasonably improved battery life (for cave exploring and diving), I had to design a pulse driver circuit (the first was about 20% on/80% off, with a saw-tooth waveform) and I relied on the human eye/brain persistence effect with light to make the pulsed light "look" like a continuously ON light. Fellow cavers and divers were amazed at how long 2 alkaline "C" cells would keep a bright light going...much longer than in the incandescent flashlights we used in common (some group buys) and with what appeared to be the equivalent output.

It is rediculous, with what littke power leds still produce usable light. I've build keyfobs with two ag0 button cells (~10mAh) that have an led running at 2μA for a year. And they are bright enough to find in a dark room. At 20μA (~0.00005 W) they are bright enough to make out words on a page. And another light build with 3x D cell batteries running at 0.125 mA / ~ 0.0003W is bright enout to illuminate a small hallway at night so that one doesn't trip ). All while being able to glow for ~5 years continously.

@@clockworkvanhellsing372 I use a boost converter for white LEDs @ 10mA - my wife likes the brightness. 100 Hrs with two AAs. 10 years flashing (every second - find it in the dark) on the same batteries.

I was experimenting with making voltage/current controlled resistors recently (that I will be usning for upcoming projects). One way to do it, that's simple and work well is to put an LED next to a photoresistor and close them off from ambient light (I put them inside a small piece of aluminium tube and sealed the ends with black hot melt glue - with just the leads sticking out). I was surpriced how little current the LED needed for the resistance to drop significantly. Just running like 20-40 uA thru the LED gave the same resistance as having the photoresistor just sitting in a well lit room. Then when I tested to run about the same current thru another LED of the same bunch that I bought and just having having it free in the room - it was glowing really brightly at that current. Even at like 5-8 uA, it's still visible in daylight. Those are green LEDs (which I chosed because the photo resistors I use have their peak sensitivity between green and yellow - about 540-560 nm).

@@Speeder84XL I've tested quite a few colours. Red, yellow and orangenare still behind and only glow visible at ~20μA. Green ones are okay and everything based on a blue led + phosphore coating will be quite bright even at 1μA. 2μA lets you make out words on a page. Nice to see others experimenting with verry low currents and leds

More like 3 months these days.

​@@hardcoreherbivore4730What is the heating season in the Yukon? It is surely six months plus.

@@man_at_the_end_of_time Not really, the Yukon is pretty this time of year. My heat is currently shut off.

However, heat pumps would still be a multiple more efficient than using light bulbs to heat your home.

I remember sitting close to my lamp when studying just to stay warm. LEDs don't have that benefit.

Our highways today are rife with LEDs that create safety hazards for oncoming motorists, cyclists and pedestrians. How is that sharing the road?

​@@rickofnsHow do they create hazards?

Then how is he going to hit the KZfaq "recommend" 10 minute mark

@@wanderingrock6756 With a little work, if he wants, he could describe the way the current LEDs direct the light in one direction with the shape of the metal parts you can see in a plain 2-lead though-hole type. He can get details from those knowledgeable of the insects and the (caloric?) energy they expend to produce that fascinating little flash of light. (etc.) ...not fill time with sloppy images and repetitive copy. Doing THAT, he risks losing the audience before the really interesting information he provides in the second half of this video.

I'm down for that. I love a good COB light with high efficacy.

water and nutrients to grow plant based food are going to be the bigger challenges but light is going to also be a factor. Some studies have proven that mimicking the light of seasonal growth with accounting for the gradual increase and decrease of light on the plant sustains a better fruit and seeds for next generation natural food growth. The only other challenge to overcome by far is the space to grow the food and the energy to maintain a sustainable system. These things look easy in Hollywood productions but when scaled to meet the needs of a ship capable of even traveling to our nearest neighboring star becomes problematic, and then when it comes to something so vital, you would absolutely want at least N+1 redundancy. Water if used for radiation shielding for the ship and recycling that would be a place to start, but we don't know the long-term effects of water that has been continuously bombarded with high energy cosmic rays which at a minimum would cause ionization of the water, but could also cause radiolysis of the water molecules into hydrogen an hydroxyl radicals. This water which is most likely not pure H2O could then react with other molecules like minerals in the water to form other various chemical reactions that could be detrimental to the ship inhabitants or may possibly be detrimental to the ship's systems in the form of corrosive or caustic effects. It would be great to just have one of those replicators from Star Trek onboard for spare parts, a cup of Earl Grey or even capable of replicating spare parts but we are far from that capability, and being prepared with at least N+1 spare parts for a ship capable of making it to the Alpha Centauri system is estimated to take the space of at least 1/3 to 1/2 the size of the living working spacecraft and systems, Space exploration is a conundrum fraught with great promise, but it also comes with some very high risks and costs. I'm confident enough in my education and knowledge to say a manned trip to Mars in the next 20-50 years is nearly impossible due to the duration and tight requirements. Any attempt should be questioned and only very cautiously encouraged. Any consideration should firstly be met with multiple mechanical system successes before any human attempt is made.

pipe dreams

I use LED bulbs now to grow food indoors and also outside under the edge of my camper roof at night to triple the growth rate of tomato plants in simply 5 gallon hydro buckets. A 10 watt LED bulb can work wonders. I also have 15, 24, and 36 watt ones and various types built into narrow rails or round panels. You can grow tomatoes and even cucumbers inside all year and of course a wide range of smaller herbs and salad greens and even citrus trees. It`s a fun and productive hobby and a much less expensive and safer way to get your lettuces for salads and sandwiches. It`s fun to grow the weird little micro dwarf tomatoes or even large varieties of determinate tomato plants and it`s exciting to experiment and develop new or improved methods.

The really cool kids got to play with green and yellow. You couldn't see them very well in ambient light, but they were still cool!

Blue is what changed the world tho

Only to wear out faster? No thanks! Solar cells do wear out over time. So their output drops after about 25 years.

Yeah, and have them on your roof to trap dirt and dust much faster. Maybe in space this would be a good idea, but it's not going to work on earth with devices with lifetimes hugely longer than fireflies.

I doubt that would work simply because most of the light hitting panels is coming from a single orientation. These structures work for LEDs because the photons are reaching the interface from a wide variety of angles.

Just a note, white leds are not made by combining red, green and blue. They use phosphorus coating to emit white light.

cause he repeats himself a lot, it's totally understandable, the man need to hit the 10 min mark, but still

@@aronseptianto8142 yea he rambled on for over 7 min before even says what the breakthrough is. And its jagged edges. Which I can say in one short sentence.

Educational stuff does not attract many people like monkey videos

@@lordmaddog6003 time to start you 1 minute KZfaq channel - I'm sure you'll be a great success.

That's what occurred to me too! I credit you for seeing it first though ;-)

I don't think so. For solar panels you need to focus the light, not scatter it

​@@mikosoftThe idea of applying a microstructure to minimize reflection of sunlight (and maximize abortion) should be useful, though

No, simply no. they are not even close to having any problems with reflecting light.

The angle of incidence is very important in solar panels. It's not about making them more efficient, it is about making them work for more hours of the day. Early morning and late afternoon where the angle of incidence prevents most light from entering the panel. There has been a lot of work done in this area but each has its drawbacks. This may work better than other attempts.

Thanks for the feedback! I'll look at how best to consolidate parts and make sure the value from the video is delivered quicker 😀

​@@ZirothTech I saw the same feedback at least 10 times in the comments. I watched another video from your channel that had the same issue. And finally I removed your channel from my recommended. It's so bad it's not worth the time. Sorry for being so direct.

Its all been done already, op just cant be bothered to do his homework.

I reckon it could. The way that light photon escaped. It's just a revesed action. You're now taking in light. Rather than, beaming out photons. And that refraction layer looks to be practically symmetrical.

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My understanding is that large-scale illumination from LEDs, particularly street lights, are already UV-based. Street lights are therefore both LED and fluorescent! You might have heard about this, but there was a batch of streetlight LED bulbs from some manufacturer that had a bad fluorescent coating which flaked off. Those bulbs look very purple. (You can find KZfaq videos about this.) I recently saw an entire tennis court that was lit with such defective bulbs, and at night it looked very eerie.

You are missing one important fact: The shorter the wavelength, the more energy is needed. And UV has a very short wavelength compared to the visible light. Then there is the refresh rate of the display. Could get very complicated to time all this the right way and still managing a 100Hz+ refresh rate. Notebook display are usually lit just from one side (often from the bottom) and the light is then distorted with layers of fresnel lenses, a diffusor and a slightly conical plate to distribute the amount of the light (almost XD) even. This is the reason why top corners of some displays are slightly darker than the rest ^^

When I said signal type display I was talking about instrumentation style. Think in a operators booth watching equipment status on/off there would be some fade off of course but on low speed(refresh rate)situations it seems practical . Even if the uv is a short wave it's time "on" state could be very short pulse

@@AVNwinner Oh, I see ^^ But in that case the benefit would be almost not existing, is my guess 😀

Nah, you got this all wrong - its not *when* they started putting LEDs in headlamps, its when *idiots* starting putting them there, factory lamps work just fine, and frankly prettty hard to do correctly.

It's been patented, so we need to wait 15 years to find out.

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I was thinking the same thing. But instead of the ridges all being angled a certain/specific way to focus the outbound light into a beam, these are randomized to allow a greater passthrough in general.

this is spesifically for LED bulb, not smth like OLED or any other screen technology. it could be translatable, but it's not the same thing and could need time to adapt. This will apply to bigger display though like advertisement screen on highrise building

​@aronseptianto8142 OLED makes use of LED right? The O in OLED being organic.

every screen commonly used today uses LEDs whether they're organic or not, this could mean a lot for more than just phones

@@irokpe6977 yeah but it's made with a different method, which may or may not make things complicated.

​@@aronseptianto8142The method of production isn't the issue here, it's about getting the light produced (whether from LEDs or OLEDs) out in a more efficient manner. Even if they can't directly integrate the biomemetic design during the production of the OLED, the can still implement it in the surrounding lens/diffuser that encapsulates it.

Can't anymore. It's patented, you can't violate the patent. See the problem?