i was thinking the same, in terms of heat exchange, and cooling. Hell, from the sounds of it, make your clothes of it and you could charge your cell phone by jogging. at 80 percent efficiency on sunlight... how efficient would this be for making electricity from just heat? this could replace every form of turbine generation from heat sources, nuclear, burning things, ect.
On 1/17/08, OrionWorks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > From Terry, > > > If you make your clothes of this: > > > > > http://www.gizmag.com/researchers-developing-solar-technology-that-works-at-night/8574/ > > > > you can charge your cell phone . . . even at night! > > > > Terry > > From the article: > > > As exciting as the potential of the technology is, > > not all the hurdles have been passed yet. While the > > nanoantennas are easily manufactured, the problem of > > creating a way to store or transmit the electricity is > > yet to be solved. Although infrared rays create an > > alternating current in the nanoantenna, the frequency > > of the current switches back and forth ten thousand > > billion times a second - much too fast for electrical > > appliances, which operate on currents that oscillate > > only 60 times a second. The team is exploring ways to > > slow that cycling down and has a patent pending on a > > variety of potential energy conversion methods. They > > anticipate they are only a few years away from creating > > the next generation of solar energy collectors. > > Pretty cool stuff. > > If I calculated correctly the frequency range of "ten thousand billion > times a second" is in the Infrared range. Makes sense. > > I wonder how those tiny vibrating nanoantennas get around the heat > entropy issue. Aren't you supposed to have a heat differential to > allow for energy extraction? Wouldn't the technology stop working if > it was bathed in ambient heat from every direction? Another thought: > If energy in the form of electricity IS carried away, shouldn't the > nanoantenna matrix collectively experience a temperature drop? > > I wonder if they could use a modified version of Dr. Stiffler's LED > configuration where the lights are designed to be sensitive to > infrared EM as a way to ameliorate the stepping down process. > > Regards > Steven Vincent Johnson > www.OrionWorks.com > www.zazzle.com/orionworks > > -- That which yields isn't always weak.
