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I Did It

This is to set a mark in history that I thought of this first. October 8, 2018

While watching solar powered knick knacks in my home at night I saw they worked from just bulbs so here's the idea.
Clear countertops and tables that you slide panels into for energy reclamation. You are still getting the function of light while also saving the absorbed energy for later use.

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It's not a bad idea as far as it goes but it wouldn't be very efficient and the amount of usable energy you could actually save and store would be very small..
On a cost benefit basis you'd never recoup the cost of the panels and batteries..

Even the best solar panels are only about 22 percent efficient in direct sunlight..
Efficiency under incandescent light would be a small fraction of that...