Re: [Vo]:Nature reporting overunity?

2017-04-27 Thread mixent
In reply to Jones Beene's message of Thu, 27 Apr 2017 08:56:36 -0700: Hi, [snip] >Even a few grams per year, per person would be problematic... in a few >billion years . ...by which time the sun will turn into a red giant, and evaporate what's left of the oceans anyway. ;) Regards, Robin van

RE: [Vo]:Nature reporting overunity?

2017-04-27 Thread bobcook39...@hotmail.com
Brian— You sound a bit cynical. It may be nothing more than fake news. Bob Cook From: Brian Ahern<mailto:ahern_br...@msn.com> Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2017 9:55 AM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com<mailto:vortex-l@eskimo.com> Subject: Re: [Vo]:Nature reporting overunity? This i

RE: [Vo]:Nature reporting overunity?

2017-04-27 Thread bobcook39...@hotmail.com
some of the time. Bob Cook from: Jones Beene<mailto:jone...@pacbell.net> Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2017 8:56 AM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com<mailto:vortex-l@eskimo.com> Subject: Re: [Vo]:Nature reporting overunity? To compare apples-to-apples - for approximating the optimal

Re: [Vo]:Nature reporting overunity?

2017-04-27 Thread Brian Ahern
10:36 AM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: Re: [Vo]:Nature reporting overunity? Robin Wiki agrees that "quantum efficiency" is the ratio of the number of charge carriers (in the case of water that would be protons) which are collected by the solar cell, compared to the number of ph

Re: [Vo]:Nature reporting overunity?

2017-04-27 Thread Jones Beene
To compare apples-to-apples - for approximating the optimal use of solar energy, whether it is solar-photovoltaic, or solar photoelectrochemical (hydrogen output) or both - here are some ballpark numbers which incorporate the new water splitting research of Yan, as reported in Nature. For the

Re: [Vo]:Nature reporting overunity?

2017-04-27 Thread Jones Beene
Robin Wiki agrees that "quantum efficiency" is the ratio of the number of charge carriers (in the case of water that would be protons) which are collected by the solar cell, compared to the number of photons of a given energy incident on the solar cell. This is essentially what you said and

Re: [Vo]:Nature reporting overunity?

2017-04-26 Thread mixent
In reply to Jones Beene's message of Wed, 26 Apr 2017 17:32:42 -0700: Hi, [snip] >A double miracle since ostensible OU was reported by Nature, the >anti-miracle(anti-LENR) mag... > >There may or may not be an LENR connection here. >

[Vo]:Nature reporting overunity?

2017-04-26 Thread Jones Beene
A double miracle since ostensible OU was reported by Nature, the anti-miracle(anti-LENR) mag... There may or may not be an LENR connection here. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/04/170425124226.htm An overunity giant step toward producing hydrogen fuel? Essentially, they