Why can’t we amplify the temperature that solar panel receives from the sun to create more energy?

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Why can’t we amplify the temperature that solar panel receives from the sun to create more energy?

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Solar thermal energy does exist. You take a bunch of mirrors, point them at a cylinder of water, they boil that water, and the steam turns a turbine.

Photovoltaic solar panels absorb too much of the sunlight to make this work, so they just have waste heat instead of useful heat.

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