Maybe not the whole schmeer after all

5/27/24:

After further review, I think I agree with the negative evaluation of this idea. However, there MIGHT be some useful value to the idea.

It seems that sodium lights are very efficient in their own right. They are used in some countries for night lighting. It may be useful as grow lights for plants. Think of it. The sun's light is only useful in certain bandwidths. If you can convert the sun's energy into an energy bandwidth that is the most useful for growing plants, you can get more yield per acre of sunlight.

Perhaps this is one of many ways to maximize the yield per acre of plant life. Since plant life sustains animal life ( like us ), then the more plant life the better. At least, that is what I think. The proposition has yet to be investigated very deeply however. It is a problem of how to use your resources to best advantage. The idea of converting heat energy to electrical energy is not sound in my opinion. Converting the inefficient energy of the sun into a more efficient means of growing plants than would occur naturally may be more useful.

One way to do this is to convert the sun's energy into electricity, then use this as a grow light for spirulina. Spirulina is an algae, which means it is rather prodigious in its growth rate. Let's say you use concentrated solar light in a desert region in order to make the electricity that runs the grow lights. You would have vastly increased the biological yield of that land. This may prove to be a viable proposition.

end update of 5/26/24 post:

This idea received some pretty negative commentary from viewers.

However, some of the material within seemed quite intriguing.

One of the ideas was to use tuned wavelengths to produce electricity from photovoltaic cells at a very high rate of efficiency. There would have to be a few tricks first before that can happen. There's always a catch, it seems.

If heat applied to sodium can generate a specific wavelength, then there's more than one way to skin that cat. This way mentioned in the video, involves using combustion as the heat source. However, heat energy can be obtained in a number of ways. That is, if that is all that it requires to make it work. Something tells me that it isn't the whole schmeer. ( BTW, what is that word "schmeer"? I used it a lot back in the 70's. Been awhile since then. Don't remember where it came from. Maybe it is just a made up word.)

Anyway, if you could produce a lot of energy this way, or even just light, it might have intriguing applications.