It’s cheaper now to install panels over the full footprint of a concentrator than to build a concentrator and a small solar panel or any sort of solar thermal generator
They’re actually quite similar to thermoelectric generators. But the potential difference between two semi conductors is created by a heat differential rather than by photon excitation.
Thermoelectric generators have been used on various rovers and deep space probes as well as in remote lighthouses.
Even wind power still turns a generator, but solar is just completely different than everything else
But what if… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concentrated_solar_power
It’s cheaper now to install panels over the full footprint of a concentrator than to build a concentrator and a small solar panel or any sort of solar thermal generator
But then we’re not boiling something to spin a turbine, and what’s the point in living then
They’re actually quite similar to thermoelectric generators. But the potential difference between two semi conductors is created by a heat differential rather than by photon excitation.
Thermoelectric generators have been used on various rovers and deep space probes as well as in remote lighthouses.