Very interesting Jones. 8-)
As far as the 2nd Law is concerned it's always struck
me that to show it's wrong is a no-brainer. All one
needs is a chess board and a concept of scale. In the
classic case of the steam engine where disorder on the
micro-scale is increased, people totally forget
Hindsight is 20/20 as they say. I hope the lab execs
at Sandia do not have to find that out the hard way...
if it turns out that they dropped funding on a
particularly promising project... or if some ploy was
involved to keep Sam out of the IP picture.
The Sunflower solar-mirror story mentined in
Jones wrote about collecting sunlight with mirrors and a device that when
heated emitted coherent IR light, whihc could be converted to electricity by
a PV cell with good efficiency.
The caveats:
You have to look at the whole system costs and maintenance. Solar
concentrators are old stuff, they
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