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#226 2025-03-10 10:55:39
- tahanson43206
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Re: kbd512 Postings
For kbd512 ...
Thanks again for your participation in Sunday's Google Meeting!
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As a follow up ... I just scanned a collection of posts that FluxBB found with the words "photon" and "trap"....
I didn't find the post you gave us showing the optical device that collects light for shipment indoors via optical cable.
If you have time please remind me of that post.
However, the reason for ** this ** post is that in one of the posts in the collection, in which you and Louis were talking about solar panels on Mars, the spectrum came up briefly.
An advantage of the all-thermal system you are working on is that the full solar spectrum is potentially available for the system, and not just the optical spectrum.
The infrared wavelengths might be (somehow) adapted to feed into the fiber, and perhaps ultraviolet photons might be stepped down to travel the same path.
I'm wondering now if the 1350 watts of solation that Wikipedia reports per square meter on Earth might be limited to the visible spectrum.
I found a graph showing the spectral distribution of solar energy reaching Earth, and the bulk is in the Visible range. However, longer wavelengths are present in significant amounts.
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