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Re: [Vo]:Valone cited thermovoltaic cells as cheap energy devices.

Harry Veeder
Tue, 06 May 2008 10:43:15 -0700

 

On 6/5/2008 12:09 PM, Jones Beene wrote:

> --- Charles M. Brown wrote:
> 
>> Paul Lowrance calculated that ambient IR blackbody
> radiation was ~ 400 watts/ M^2.
> 
> Even if this figure were to be correct, and I think it
> is high -
> 
> ... the problem is not the absolute level of blackbody
> irradiation, per se, BUT instead it is finding the
> proper "sink" in close proximity to that radiation.

the underside of a aeroplane?

Harry