if I take a huge magnifying glass and aim a beam of light from the sun on a solar panel , will it produce more energy ?

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if I take a huge magnifying glass and aim a beam of light from the sun on a solar panel , will it produce more energy ?

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Yes it will, but a regular solar panel may not survive very long.

What you’re talking about is Concentrated Photo Voltiac panels and they are a whole thing on their own. CPV panels sometimes utilize different materials, active watercooling, selective wavelength filters and so forth.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concentrator_photovoltaics

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