Michel Jullian wrote:
---
> Silly questions, have you made sure there was no heat source (such as
yourself) in the room? Are the walls of the room at the same temperature as the air?
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There's always the possibility, as those particular experiments were not
meticulously performed. One of these days I'll have to spend more time on it.
Regards,
Paul Lowrance
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Paul Lowrance"
> To: <[email protected]>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2007 3:40 PM
> Subject: Re: [Vo]: Ambient IR lenses or mirrors
>
>
>> 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
