Can you bottle sunlight? Can you keep sunlight in a jar or something like that?

Question: Can you bottle sunlight? Can you keep sunlight in a jar or something like that?
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  jar,
  light,
  sun
Asked by davieshobo9 to Amy, Drew on 24 Jun 2011.
- Drew Rae answered on 24 Jun 2011:
  
  Ooh. Interesting thought. From a scientific point of view, there’s nothing magical about sunlight, it’s just light of particular set of frequencies. So we could trap the energy in a jar, and then re-emit it when the jar was opened using a combination of solar panel to collect, light sources and filters to emit.
  
  Could we do it just using mirror’s inside? It would be very inefficient, so not for very long.
- Amy MacQueen answered on 24 Jun 2011:
  
  Hi davies apparently so…unless they are faking it…http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=GB&v=mSz-gyyU8RA 🙂

davieshobo9 commented on 24 Jun 2011:

Using mirrors would be much easier and kinda cool. It would be really awesome if we could catch sunlight though! Thank you 🙂

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Question: Can you bottle sunlight? Can you keep sunlight in a jar or something like that?