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To: Richard Chapman who wrote (1136)7/2/1999 8:42:00 PM
From: Tom Swift  Read Replies (1) of 1364
 
Boy, NATO got in for 3K. That is hard to do. 5K is the usual low end price that I get for UR. However, NSF grants can go as low as $1,200.

The 1.6MM grant looks like an ongoing research grant -- pretty good money from a commercial source.

However, there is now a major effort involving diamond film growth
for application to direct conversion of nuclear energy.


This is of course what the news release I dissected yesterday was really talking about. Prelas is not stupid and understands the limitations of high-bandgap PV cells under solar spectra as well as I do. The problem is that whoever wrote the press release had no understanding of the science or technical basis of this type of technology.

What was undoubtedly meant by the news release was that in combination with the nuclear flux source, high-bandgap PV cells could be used in a nuclear to electricity direct conversion device. This is true, and is not new. Look for papers by Larry Olsen.

The third grant is the most typical ~30K for a grad student.
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