Thanks Red Badger.
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Posted on 07/28/2023 10:44:15 AM PDT by Red Badger
You know that is the first thing I thought of too.
The most important thing that learned from Star TreK:
Never wear a red uniform
If true, is a breakthrough with vast implications.
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ok. like what?
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There was a great documentary from 2005: “How William Shatner Changed the World,” hosted by Shatner himself, that showed how many of today’s gadgets were anticipated by the original Star Trek series.
Right U R.
Well it is still into the future and I have confidence real men will re-discover the allure of the feminine physique. Plus we don’t have teleporters yet, so there’s still time.
I’m no physicist, duh, but it sounds like thermal radiation is just waste radiation from heat when it is in excess of what can be used and these scientists have managed to figure out how to keep it from being wasted, resulting in a reduction or prevention of thermal radiation. It could be useful for maybe making cars more efficient, if it can be adapted.
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is the heat that is generated by a coal oil natural gas oven or aj nuclear reaction considered to be waste heat? If that heat could be turned directly into electricity —then it really is revolutionary.
if waste heat from say a nuclear reaction could be turned into electricity—then yeah this would be revolutionary. but I can’t say that I know what’s going on.
I hear you, but even nuclear power plants are only about 33% efficient for energy transfer to power for your home. That’s a lot of waste energy. If they can increase the efficiency, that’s untold billion that could be saved.
Well said !
The way I read it, the “waste” energy (e.g., infrared) is re-emitted at a different *angle* than the incoming energy (e.g., visible light). This means that whatever collects it needn’t block the incoming radiation. This could allow two-stage electricity generation using two different kinds of photocells (for the different wavelengths).
(I sort of remember reading about two-stage steam systems the used the low pressure steam that came out of the turbine to run the pumps or some such.)
Buddy of mine worked at a utility & said they found a guy in the boonies living in a tent under the transmission lines. He was getting his electricity by wrapping heavy copper around railroad ties. He didn’t have much but I guess it was enough for his tent. They found him during routine inspections & threatened to call the sheriff for stealing electricity unless he took it apart.
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