Almot wrote:
West - if we don't collect electricity from excited electrons, they will come down to their previous low energy level. This difference of energy needs to go somewhere, in idling panel - heat, glow etc.
I would assume that the unbalanced excitation of free electrons morphs back into a balanced state when idling. If the bonds are weak or if the free electron is still "close" to the original structure, there probably is not a lot of energy dissipation going on.
Where I lose it thinking about this, is that this is not a chemical reaction but some voodoo between photons and the silicone structure. They do dope the cell to recover the energy to the cell's circuitry but this isn't a chemical reaction either, AFAIK.
