Horrible video and text reader is making my ears bleed.
They are trying to explain a flywheel energy storage device without knowing anything about it other than there are magnets and spinning involved.
Reflectors will decrease the output of a solar panel because it will make the panel hotter. The increased heat and uv light on the panels will also
shorten the life of the pannels making the need to replace them sooner. If you can live with the shortened life by the increased uv exposure, you can
increase the output of a solar panel with reflectors but you have to water cool the panel which takes power for the pump and fan on the cooling
radiator. You can use the heat for hot water and general heating by the usual hot water tube or radiator method in your house but you will still loose
the energy increase when you have to get rid of the excess heat form the panels.
It is cheeper and easier to just add more panels, a bigger charge controller and more batteries.
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a reply to: Mystery00
Use of reflectors for solar power generation is not a new idea:
Those reflectors aren't aimed at electric solar panels though.
Using reflectors with solar panels may be feasible, but electric solar panels have a limited range of operating temperatures, above which the panels
can be damaged, so excessively high temperatures are a possible concern with using reflectors.
For a related example, there was a building with reflective windows that had a slight curvature to it, and the extra heat was so excessive that cars
parked in the street near the building had parts melting from the reflections of the sun.
So if you can use reflectors to improve solar panel output without damaging the panels, that's a feasible idea which you would need to test to verify
the panels aren't damaged. Even if they aren't instantly destroyed, if the solar panel life is shortened from say 10 years to only 2 years, that's
still a huge issue concerning the economics of the idea.
Then the idea of turning a hand crank to generate electricity of course works but I visited a museum where you could turn a generator to see how much
electricity you could personally create...it wasn't much, but I did generate a tiny bit. I could light a 75 watt lightbulb but keeping it lit was very
tiring.
Beyond that the idea goes off the rails in talking about perpetual motion. You might be the millionth person to think magnets can be used for some
kind of perpetual motion generator, but I have yet to see a working model so none of the ideas work. There are a couple of fake videos on youtube, but
they have hidden batteries. Try to make your own without the batteries...it won't work. If it does work, you should be selling it, not talking about
it, but like all other perpetual motion machines, if it's a closed system you can't get more energy out than you put in.
But you might say, it's not a closed system, you're saying something about putting in energy from the solar panel. In that case, you won't get any
more energy out from the magnets than you put in with the solar panels and all other energy inputs to the magnets. If you do, then again don't talk
about it, sell it, everybody would buy it if it works, but if you're just talking about it it's a safe assumption that it doesn't work.