Jones Beene wrote:
>
>> Lets consider photovoltaic cells. Even at room temperature in
>> complete darkness (no solar) there are visible light photons striking
>> the cell. I calculate a 10 cm x 10 cm common solar cell would
>> generate roughly 1E-30 volts. Not much voltage, lol, but still
>> something nonetheless.
>
> Well Paul, you might find that you can accentuate that small effect by
> many orders of magnitude if you can get hold of a large parabolic
> mirror. These can be specialty coated for IR.
>
> Once again, it defies common sense, but such a mirror will focus and
> amplify ambient IR photons. Even in darkness. Although this is very
> inefficient, due to the long wavelength of this spectrum - it does
> happen and in IR astronomy, for instance, they can get many orders of
> magnitude amplification.
That's a good idea. Last year I spent a little time writing such a simulation
program just to prove it to myself. The results agreed with what you say; i.e.,
you can focus blackbody radiation. Last year a gentlemen with connections to
Nasa said a group inside Nasa not only knows about this parabolic effect, but
built such equipment.
Another person at overunity.com posted successful experiments of focusing such
room temperature black body radiation, which resulted in above temperature.
IMHO it's just silly to think we cannot extract energy from moving mass.
Electrons traveling at ~1/200 c at room temp. As you agree, it is possible. Any
cap connected to a resistor demonstrates this.
> Get hold-of an IR spectrum photonic cell and also an IR (coated)
> parabolic mirror and you can make you own demo of this - and make it a
> little more meaningful than ^-30 ... geeze - you need to get it up to
> where an affordable voltmeter will show something.
Yes, lol, that's true, but the 1e-30 volts was another example of common visible
light spectrum photovoltaic cell absorbing visible light black body radiation.
The main example of my post was the capacitor and resistor example, which
charges to *measurable* voltages levels.
Although the aforementioned examples have very little to do with my main
research, which is MCE (magnetocaloric effect), as the goal of such MCE research
aims to generate kilowatts of power from a common silicon iron transformer.
Don't get me wrong. I think such LED research or even Charles Brown's research
is great! I'm just more interested in a device that anyone could build that for
say a few hundred dollars that could generate kilowatts of continuous power in
complete darkness.
Regards,
Paul Lowrance
