Well, Mills sidestepped that question, and said something to the effect of
the energy being free, it would probably just get dumped. As I recall
there is a large thermal time constant associated with the thermalization
to convert the emitted spectrum to optimized blackbody for PV electric
conversion. Throttling the silver droplets will slowly cool the blackbody
emitter out of its efficiency match to the PV spectrum.
I can see why he didn't want to say it could be throttled.
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On February 4, 2016 7:12:46 PM [email protected] wrote:
In reply to Bob Higgins's message of Thu, 4 Feb 2016 17:22:46 -0700:
Hi,
[snip]
Mills talked about the source voltage being "only 10V", but 10V has at
least the potential to deliver 10eV of energy. 10eV of energy is the
energy of a photon at 124nm in the extreme UV. His "only 10V" statement
was meant to dissuade the listener that high energy photons were not
possible directly from this source.
He also has the habit of immensely glossing over engineering details. When
he talked about getting rid of 65% of 250kW (163kW) of heat using an
"automobile radiator", he forgot to notice that an automobile engine only
dissipates that much heat at high speed and only then for short bursts. If
a car is trying to dissipate that much heat while standing still, it will
overheat immediately. Yes, you can use a radiator to dissipate 163kW of
heat, but it will be huge and fan cooled.
His device is actually run in pulse mode, with rapid pulse repetition. That
means that he can vary the output power by varying the pulse rate.
Regards,
Robin van Spaandonk
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