Charles M. Brown wrote: > I have not believed that mirrors or lenses could concentrate ambient IR > because optical systems exchanges working angle for magnification, a > situation that doesn't lend to preferential energy transfer. If > experiments have worked anyway, please share the results. > > Aloha, > > Charlie >
Please contact me if you are serious about this and I'll find the guy at overunity.com that provided experiments to demonstrate this simple fact. This would take some of my time to find the resources. Therefore I normally ask the person to give their word they will spend appreciable time studying and performing the experiments.
You might want to get a thermal gun (hopefully with 0.1 F or better resolution), which is best for this type of research since it directly measures the amount of FIR radiation emitting from an area. Last year I bought a great IR thermal gun on sale for $35. Yesterday I bought a pocket version on sale at Harbor Freight for $10. :-) In a closed and temperature stabilized environment you will find a temperature gradient in various locations around a parabolic shape.
Last year I created a wiki on T-rays read --> http://emwiki.info/T-ray_Energy_Mover_Intro http://emwiki.info/T-ray_Energy_Mover_Dew_Point_Exp http://peswiki.com/index.php/Directory:PaulL:Thermodynamics tools: http://emwiki.info/T-ray_Energy_Mover_Blackbody_Calc references: http://emwiki.info/T-ray_Energy_Mover_References Regards, Paul Lowrance
