Jones Beene
Tue, 08 Jul 2008 08:56:10 -0700
--- Robin van Spaandonk wrote: In reply to Zachary Jones's message: > This may explain something else - the "whitegold" story. There is probably something to this fable, other than the original pseudoscience of Hudson. Wiki has an entry on some of it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colloidal_gold The rest is ingrained in Greek and Egyptian mythoglogy. Check out the last Wiki paragraph for a reference which may have relevance to alternative energy: "These gold nanoparticles are surrounded with Raman reporters which provide light emission that is over 200 times brighter than quantum dots." END Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy is a technique that results in the enhancement of the inelastic scattering of photons. The enhancement factor can be as much as 10^15. On top of that, with gold colloids, there seems to be a further anomaly although the two have not been linked heretofore. So far, so good. Where is this leading? Hmmm... not really sure, but if a large percentage of the incident light (solar source) results in anti-Stokes scattering (where the gold colloid loses ambient energy) then the table is set to capture energy from ambient, in the form of higher energy photons, and that is in addition to the source photons, no? BTW isn't Raman one of those "names that work" as in "Ra-man" which is kinda neo-Promethean, in a cross cultural way ;-) IOW - given that the best triple junction photocells can probably reach a conversion efficiency of 40% soon, then it could be remotely possible that future solar collectors could using an "Enhanced Raman Reflector" of gold colloid, could actually push 100% conversion? At any rate, pursuing this subject (including ingesting the whitegold) definitely puts one's liver at risk. Jones