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To: Square_Dealings who wrote (75782)	9/2/2001 10:46:24 AM
From: E. Charters	Respond to of 116836

I think if they add 3 parts bromoform triglyceride and a bit of gadolinium the carbon will not only be superconductive, but it will also be super-elastic. This will allow spherical conductors that will rebound from collision with more energy than was input. So balls will bound higher than they are dropped. This has the obvious advantage of allowing low energy translation of the physical carrier. Once energized, the sphere would carry current in a current loop endlessly. To transmit energy, the ball would be started in a physical path towards the current receptor. Since it would gain energy with each terrestial collision, it would literally hop to the client-user of the energy with no energy loss. The ball would then be caught in a collecting anode-basket and drained of its current and thence returned. Odd bounces that caused misses of the collection-basket current-receptors would not be a serious matter, as the unit cost of the sphere-charging would not be large. You make up for it by launching lots of balls. Eventually the missing balls would, by ever increasing bounces, find their way into space orbit and thus provide a source of energy for satellites. I think that a serious area of research should be given more impetus, and that is solar conversion. The sun beams megawatts of power down to us and we simply bask in its rays with nary a thought of changing the power to something more useful than mere evaporative engines, or photosynthesis. Without this photon source, our lives would be rather desolate, no doubt. A cell that converted power at say a 30% efficiency, and cost pennies must be there in the chemical maze somewhere. Hydrogen gas should be able to do it, if it can be "fixed" somehow; perhaps a hydrogen saturated metal. right now the metal-silicon semiconductor, or transistor is the most common cell. Then we could make really cool photon torpedoes. EC<:-}