Does it fly?
--On Friday, June 21, 2013 7:08 AM -0700 Jones Beene <jone...@pacbell.net>
wrote:
With all the talk about NASA and an LENR powered airplane, it would seem
that all that one needs now for the near-term reality - is to apply a
HotCat with a direct conversion scheme - to this design for the E-plane.
It is quite beautiful - and appeared recently at the Paris Air Show, but
more of a powered glider.
http://cleantechnica.com/2013/06/21/new-electric-airplane-shown-off-at-p
aris
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We have thrown out ideas for direct conversion before. At the high
temperature of the HotCat, they become far more feasible.
The most obvious one - if there is IR resonance as part of the
operational parameters, is a photocell designed exactly for the emission
spectrum. These have actually been fabricated
http://cearl.ee.psu.edu/Projects/Assets/Project2/Project2_3_1/DualbandIR
filt ersDrupp0904.pdf
Notice the wavelength captured is very specific to the geometry of the
fractal which is etched. This favors high efficiency at say 20 terahertz
- with efficiency possibly above the range of broad-band solar
photocells.
An optimist could imagine 6 HotCats in a hexagonal array, surrounded by
these fractal antenna powering the EADS glider, manned (or more likely
unmanned as a drone) for a very long time.
"Around the World" in two weeks by 2015? In your dreams, maybe.
Jones
