Can we separate light and heat from solar rays?

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  Kaustubh Katdare

  Cold mirrors actually separate large portion of heat from light. I believe you'd just be looking at offsetting the IR part of the spectrum; which mostly is heat.
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  Vignesh Viky

  Thank you, Sir. By offsetting IR rays, does the intensity of light reduce? Does it reduce the solar power output? Also, can we use a thermoelectric generator to generate additional small power from the IR rays?
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  Ramani Aswath

  Look at it this way: The total energy reaching the panel with the sun directly above the panel is a mixture of x% heat and (100 - x)% light. Even assuming a perfect heat blocking filter, still the light energy reaching the panel is (100 - x)% whether the filter is there or not.