oddly troy a lot of this comes straight from the heart of. the russian internet trying to get charged to maintain our b.w. . global energy consumption rises every year many people's biological rhythms are no longer in sync with day and night but more with artificial light what does that mean for us energy demands but also to keep the natural resources renewable energies could help more if they were more efficient one idea is to use lenses to focus on light more precisely on the solar cells in the panel. welcome to tomorrow today the science show on the d.w. .

stuff how do solar cells actually was so hisself are mainly composed of silicone. silicon atoms have full electrons in the outer shell and are stable but then the silicon is split into 2 layers. bosphorus is mixed into one like it has 5 electrons in its outer shell one too many which can orbit for. the 2nd layer is mixed with boron which has only 3 out electrons one to feel. that means the layer has gaps which attract the excess phosphorus electrons this creates a flow of negatively charged electrons from one layer to the other one layer loses electrons and becomes positive the other gains electrons and becomes negative creating 2 poles eventually all the gaps on the surface of the layers. occupied the

whole and the electrons are now to flora plant to migrate that's where the sun comes in when some light hits the surface layer he splits off one unit making a hole under so close election. the electron is attracted to the positive and the home goes another electron from another down to replace the one longs which in turn is split off inside. the electrons which of the right at the positive pole return via one head to the negative that's an electric car. and it flows as long as the sun shines. if solar energy is to enable commercial aviation and satisfy our electricity needs in the future then there's still a lot of work to be done. research is forging ahead. florian galusha's come up with

a new method of extracting even more power from sunlight. but. what we've done instead of using normal silicon solar cells which have a maximum laboratory efficiency of 26 to 27 percent is to use somewhat more exotic cells their maximum lab efficiency is over 47 percent but they're expensive and above his expensive solar super cells yellowish months a panel of lenses each of which focuses sunlight on an individual cell throughout the day that boosts efficiency to 29 percent in real life conditions. the main challenge is making sure the light actually hits the cell if it doesn't and it won't produce any energy at all. in gaelic celebratory we get my idea of how it works he uses a model to show how the lenses function each lens in the top panel focuses the sunlight on an exactly defined radius. covering

a super cell. because those cells are tiny barely one millimeter across. we use about $10000.00 cells per square meter and each has to have a high degree of tolerance. but now it's time for the engineers to put the lab behind them. right now we're still almost sticking everything together by hand but now the important step is going from the lab to mass production how can i produce a module every couple of minutes using machinery that's the really huge leap we're about to take that will fit in the of mafia. the european union is giving insulate almost 3000000 euros from its advent solar cell fund expensive science but worth it . including installation ourselves or about 20 percent more expensive but they produce 50 percent more energy to. improve his ation of solar energy is one thing

but it's also highly dependent on the weather it only makes sense when electricity storage facilities have been improved. lithium ion batteries are the standard today but scientists at switzerland's materials testing and research institute show us how dangerous they can be if the lithium ion cells insulation is compromised and the terminals come into contact with metallic objects such as coins the result can be disastrous. our approach to stabilizing the electrolytes involves a highly concentrated salt solution. the swiss researchers have developed a highly soluble salt that only needs a few drops of water here seen in fast motion to function as

a more conductive but much safer electrolyte in lithium ion batteries. that kind of storage battery would be enormously useful for storing solar energy in people cellars or in other very large batteries. to bridge the nighttime gap as well as bad weather. in the batteries or the ideal solution for delaying energy consumption for a few minutes. solar energy for foggy days or the night time in future we could be storing it in less volatile batteries and we have today. it's energy that could become abundantly available thanks to a new generation of panels to collect it. we wouldn't use any energy at all that's the idea behind the ancient dream of the petrol motion

a machine that moves without any energy source but the laws of physics teach us that it's not possible i can't eat everything up and simply hope the biscuit to pull itself. if i lose energy i have to replace it on the other hand cranked without an engine that might. phoenix looks like. but it's actually an airplane or to be precise and unmanned aerial vehicle. it's to . the prototype the wings and tail will be added shortly we joined the team amid preparations for the 1st test flight. the researchers have chosen a huge building for their 1st attempt to get phoenix into the air a tense moment for its inventors. scientists from various universities and companies in britain spent 3 years working on phoenix. aerodynamics professor andrew bring up the team. says.

the goal was to build an aircraft that could propel itself without the need for an engine. has been around for a long time i've 150 years and it's used underwater for remotely operated vehicles so there are various things are used underwater for surviving but nobody's made it work in air before because there is a sound sometimes less dense and water the physical process is more complicated phoenix is filled with helium the material for the outer hull had to be developed specially it needed to be lightweight but dense enough to prevent the tiny helium molecules from seeping through. the wings are made of lightweight carbon fiber both the wings and tail carry solar panels to provide the plane with power some is stored in batteries meaning phoenix can also fly at night. this is phoenix in its

fully assembled stage the aircraft will likely be used as an atmospheric satellite or pseudo satellite either for telecommunications or for things like land surveillance after natural disasters to see where help is most needed one of the possibilities is as a suit our satellites are being able to do surveillance and monitoring and for that it would fly at 20000 meters and 20000 meters because that's where the weather is most benign. a much lower than the surface phoenix's 15 meters long and weighs just $120.00 kilos without the helium. that means it requires very little power. it's a huge advantage is that because it has no engine it doesn't need to carry any fuel that means it can remain airborne for weeks or months at a time. the mix is also relatively cheap to manufacture. it's propelled by what's

known as variable buoyancy propulsion this is how it works. and is lighter than air and therefore pulls the aircraft of course the underside is equipped with 2 compressors which draw in air from outside and compress it feeling a bag inside the aircraft. that makes the plane heavier causing it to sink again. the air is then pumped out making the aircraft lighter and causing it to rise again this ability to believe as it were moving up and down combines with the lift generated on its wings to move it forward. half the time phoenix is heavier than air like an airplane. the other half it's lighter than air like a balloon. the model has been through countless tests in wind tunnels.

andrew ray is responsible for the aerodynamics in the moment he's keen to improve further tests. using lasers and smoke his team is able to show how the air flows around the model. they needed to establish the most efficient design to allow the aircraft to maximize the use of its kinetic energy. ok. after 3 years of development the prototype was ready for its 1st test flight. and it was a success phoenix flew in waves down the 120 metre long hangar exactly as it was designed to do.

we were all presently surprised that it worked as well as it did. we initially had hoped to. do one series of tests where was like the narran one had to know but it flew solo to begin with that we were able to do multiple transitions between the 2 when it flew forward repeatedly during the flight systems. work is now underway to build the next prototype it's set to be 4 times as enormous phoenix and capable of flying at the target altitude of 20000 meters. the earth is finite covered by in the right of tiny luminous dots it could be beautiful in another context electric light does make modern life possible independent from the 24 hour day might with a lot of freedom but also what a catastrophe it confuses the environment and least spend too much time in us official ice and also nothing in essential sunlight time for an experiment.

these 3 people are exposed to different levels of light during their day. boss john works in an office which means spending long hours in artificial light. thomas is a goat herd and is mostly outdoors. then there is 19. a doctor who works as a surgeon in a hospital and she works at night when your body is telling her it's dark and time to go to bed. we equip our test subjects with a special device that measures the brightness and composition of the lights they're exposed to. and then we track them around the clock for a week. we want to know how much and what type of light our test subjects are

exposed to and when. sleep researcher alfred riata and light expert because it gets analyze the results . what will they show how much like to our subjects received at what time of day. tomas the go to tends to be out in the open with natural light galore even in gloomy weather he's subject to several 1000 locks per day. after sundown he manages without a television or mobile phone which both emit a lot of blue light and are disruptive. this shows the amount of natural light thomas is exposed to over the course of several days in the. mall going on the meter side there's a very high a luminance in the morning and around noon up to $7000.00 lux dollars and looks on

and in the afternoon it drops significantly. around $100.00 lux or lower looks on in need once and at night the light exposure is reduced to an absolute minimum of absolute minimum that would see it is in accordance with the natural gauge a night rhythm effect the stock knocked over at most and pushed. past younes case the journey takes place almost exclusively indoors despite having large windows he always turns on the light but artificial light is usually very weak whereas cotard thomas can reach 7000 lux bastions level is just 220 must channel so spends most of his evenings in front of a t.v. or computer screen in addition to being low light they emit primarily blue light this lowers the wake sleep regulating hormone melatonin and reverses his inner rhythm essentially turning back his biological clock and the result for us john is

this modest hour by hour exposure to light on a typical working day then just cut in while working in the office we have 2 $100.00 to $220.00 lots which is far short of daylight vite and found that august least what we notice is that he still has a relatively high illuminance after work until he goes to bed. who are. at this so and that he definitely has a negative effect on his sleep wake behavior and. and they got the 5 was. not deemed as a doctor who likewise works with little light most of it artificial. and sometimes with practically none. and come back i'm just a ripe for a night shift saturday night which no one likes to see but i'm not properly rested even after. commission. but she needs to be wide awake

not least when stitching up a wound at 1 am. the surgery room light is particularly strong which helps right now but for her biological clock it's unnatural outside of course it's dark. if she's lucky and it's a quiet night nadine will be able to take a break and catch up on her sleep. but it's only a matter of time until she's called to the next patient which means getting up again pronto. soon enough to 50 even so my night shift is over and my colleague is now taking over for the daytime shift and which just by i'm can feel that you can't really look forward to going home when you know you'll be back again this evening when it was. envisaged what her light exposure chart looks like. in. common for

the 1st 3 days you can see a relatively good day night rhythm after that her night shifts begin. and then there's no daylight rhythm at all as far as light exposure is concerned the least exposed and so on when she's more or less exposed to continuous lighting. and that constant light is anything but natural. her biological clock has no means of orientation. in order to reset her clock back to normal she needs daylight in the morning between 8 and noon the time of day there are 3 subjects differ substantially in exposure. line shows the light on a typical morning for office worker boss john read his that of dr 19 and greene go to her tomas whose exposure is 10 times higher in those crucial morning hours. so how can the office worker and dr get more like.

we'll have the solution for you in a moment but 1st of all we are asked how much you have to rely on us official light and if you have strategies for avoiding too much of it. brown says they don't have too much artificial light and ideas so they don't really depend on it. rising from columbia mo said tells us it really makes the set that light pollution means she can see the greatest show on earth the milky way it's like a cascade of diamonds sparkling in the sky. and doctor tells us that pakistan's rule areas have barely any artificial light at night the people there are healthier than city people they're also very strong emotional they stay calm laurie lettuce and mostly smile thanks for writing in.

even if in some regions 9 time still looks like night time the world as a whole has been getting brighter recently. many professions are rescheduling work to have an overnight song only work at night but how can you stay healthy despite that. but daylight experiments. thomas spends most of his days outdoors so he gets plenty of natural light in the evenings he tends to avoid screens with their eye blue spectrum output he's just fine but bastions office job means he has a serious like deficit problem and not just because his office is too dark. an office worker circadian rhythms are completely disrupted and we should try to adjust his biological clock. so he'll be more capable and alert in the morning 50

the highest for bastiaan that means 1st thing in the morning it's out into the fresh air and natural g. light not exactly a grueling task skipping one stop on the subway into work is all it takes. we also install a standard daylight lamp on his desk for him to use during the morning that way he's getting 2000 lux even in the office. and in the evening a book is always better than a screen. measurement show just how even a smartphone can influence our sleep patterns normal display light is dominated by the blue spectrum that suppresses melatonin the hormone that steers our weak sleep rhythm however many smartphones now feature a filter called night shift it cuts down the blue spectrum component sharply damage come on all it lets you use your smartphone at night an equal amount feeling

guilty about disrupting your sleep the stuff they start out. but others do this is the time the system will start with the daylight lamp and walking in broad daylight at got a feeling that i get tired very much earlier at night and want to go to sleep beautifully either i'm trying to give it it gets on my nerves a bit because i like to stay up late. you know. what i don't feel like i'm struggling to get through the day like i used to before this whole experiment publishing issue discs. instead and quite often much more alert the. hospital doctor 19 really gets much daylight and her night shifts go counter to her biological clock adrenaline is what keeps her we markedly awake at work the. feel she's doing a lot right she's limited by her night shifts of course what is important is that she at least grabs whatever sleep she can when on shift. the sleep experts offer

her another suggestion after a night shift should try specially colored glasses which filter out that studies are melatonin level and she'll sleep easier when she gets home the experiments outcome is that the most important thing is to get a lot of natural daylight preferably in the morning that way the biological clock settles into its natural rhythm and also to try to go without screens in the evening and if night shifts are a must then only a few of them at a time grouped together a well maintained biological clock never needs reminding. so some lines is best that much we know it also helps us to produce this mental essential for both development and also said to boost the immune system but getting the right amount of sunlight is important too much he says unhealthy the world long ago adapted to the sun's 24 hour of rhythm it's regulated human life for thousands

of years but how did it come about amos from zambia wanted to know. how was the son created. it's been burning away for over 4 and a half 1000000000 years and it's not even high. through its projected life span. one in which human history is just the blink of an eye. but while we may be just a transitory moment in cosmic terms we are at least able to study the life cycle of the sun. our galaxy is home to billions of other stars like it. space telescopes have given astronomers a closer look at how stars evolve. our own son was born from

a cloud of gas and dust over the course of millions of years. it's a magical process reproduced here on a computer. this cloud of dust contains regions of denser gas like pearls on necklace. the astral embryos that emerge there continue growing until they have sufficient mass to ignite the sun's fire. if outlet is right why of it but on the face of it. do you have a science question that you've always wanted on state we're happy to help out with a little less as the video takes over we smell if we answer it on the show we'll send you a little surprise as a thank you can i just ask. would you like to see more science stories then visit our website or follow us on twitter on facebook.

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