JERRY DECKER ABOUT ENERGY
By Jerry Decker
JERRY DECKER ABOUT ENERGY
Hi Folks!
The following message is extracted from the free energy discussion list hosted by the ineffable Bill Beaty. It is of interest here because it appears to indicate that heat/IR energy can be intercepted by specially doped cells to produce electricity.
James Bailey at one time wrote that the waste heat emanating from a human body was on the order of 300 Watts. And we are working on posting of an incredible little known document that indicates a way to develop crystals that will sap ambient heat for the direct production of electricity.
What would happen if you acoustically or resonantly stimulate these IR cells either while growing/depositing the crystals or during operation to determine if the efficiency might be 'programmed' (ala Sweet) into the material?? A most intriguing question.
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Highlights from my conversation w/Jason Keyes at JX Crystals (near Seattle):
APPLICATION: This is a way to harvest electricity where you already have a high heat application (furnaces, water heaters, etc.)--not a preferential way of producing electricity...unless, like the military, you are determined to eliminate all moving parts (except cooling fan) at any cost.
AVAILABILITY: About 20 Midnite Sun furnaces are available for $2500 as beta site units--pref. sold to end-users located in the Seattle vicinity, and who can provide the most salient feedback during this latter development phase. The units consist of a 25K BTU/hr. heater (comparable to a wood-burning stove) with thermo/photo/voltaic cells built in.
OPERATION: Pressurized propane or natural gas flame heats silicon carbide ceramic emitter which glows white hot. Forced air is mixed w/propane to increase flame heat to just under 1300øC required to induce the requisite IR frequencies from the emitter.
144 cells are positioned 1 inch away. Between them is a dielectric (I think they mean DICHROIC) filter: a glass w/sprayed-on layers that reflects higher (non-electricity producing) IR wavelengths back at the emitter, cooling the cells while increasing emitter efficiency by re-heating it.
Cells respond to 1.7 microns & slightly higher (whereas conventional silicon cells are optimized for 1.1+ microns).
OUTPUT: The unit produces 100W, 15W of which is diverted to the forced air system, leaving an available output of 85W @ 12V or 24V. The fans improve heater efficiency by circulating warm air.
The Midnite Sun heater is about 1/4 as electrically efficient as solar--about 1.5% efficient--when comparing equal collector area, and assuming optimum energy input: in peak sunlight, ~1KW falls on a sq. meter of PV module; Midnite Sun, ~40W.
MORE R & D: If you wanted to buy a few cells for experimentation, they could be had for ~$200/pc; for a few hundred, $40/pc. (the best deal is to buy a furnace).
Cells are theoretically capable of 6W: 1W is affordable w/air forced over cooling fins behind cells; 2W is expensive, a military application w/water cooling (or A LOT of air); more W requires extravagant cooling measures.
--Russ
This email was sent to Jason Keyes direct and to the KeelyNet discussion list.
Jason, I was totally enthralled by your page and the 'thermovoltaics' or 'thermoPHOTOvoltaics'....have to put a link on my site to you guys as you really have something new and totally novel. http://www.jxcrystals.com/
I have a very rare paper that I plan to post shortly which indicates how electrical energy can be gathered using properly designed crystals. I didn't write it but a friend found it in a private library and we almost have it ready to post. It indicates you can pull hundreds or more watts directly from the ambient environment, using electronics...the paper won a cash prize and no one apparently knows about it.....YET...
One thing that might increase the efficiency....are the crystals grown or deposited on the substrate?
There is a group who claims you can inject one or more frequencies which sets up a kind of waveguide in the material that makes it much less resistive and much more conductive.
Here is Keely's concept of 'graduation'; http://www.keelynet.com/keely/grad1.txt
Inducing acoustic superconductivity in conductors; http://dallastexas.net/keelynet/archive/00002257.htm
How to make homemade solar cells from the KeelyNet discussion list; http://dallastexas.net/keelynet/archive/00000002.htm
Good luck and I'll certainly be watching!!
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Jerry Wayne Decker / jdecker@keelynet.com
http://keelynet.com / Fax : (214) 324-3501
www.padrak.com/ine/NEN_6_8_6.html
June 2, 1999.