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

[Jones Beene]

--- Charles M. Brown wrote:

> Instead of IR photons being plentiful at a source
and rare at a sink, I see events as the IR creating
electron / hole  pairs that are locally out of
equilibrium 


Well OK - that works *one time* - but after the one
time, in which the local imbalance comes back into
equilibrium, then if there is no "sink," there is no
continuing local imbalance and the effect cannot
continue ...