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To: TobagoJack who wrote (56574)	10/17/2009 2:13:29 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 218007

I am a dropout but I'm a microwave guy. You take a waveguide section, calibrate it (means you dimension it to make the right lambda travel inside it most effectively and then you concentrate that electromagnetic wave on single point. In that single point there is a detector that take the microwave signal and send it for processing it until you remove the information in the RF signal. The guys might have got that concept, used some micromachined wave guide (the spiral thing they talk about and got a better microwave antenna) then they imagined: What if we calibrate it for visible light. Well, a wave guide for visible light is not a mechanical device. It is that thing that I string along Angolan roads a.k.a fiber optics. I am pretty sure the so-called meta-materials and mentioning uses for invisile cloacks come from the research done for Stealth planes which uses materials with high absorption for radar waves plus machined surfaces to send the waves some else rather than reflecting them back. Just in case, the absorption of the radar waves heats up the Stealth plane, which means, they can be made visible by infrared goggles. Thus all that heat must be carefully dispersed on the wake of the plane so as to be undetected. I am still betting on harvesting visible light using clorophyl on the leaves of the sugar cane plants, to produce sugar and use the sugar cane for making ethanol. TJ A black hole is pure gravity force. The name of the device is misleading. The Chinese guys on the lab are right. The US kids got a lot of money for research when the US was going up. They can gorge in that money too!!!

To: TobagoJack who wrote (56574)	10/18/2009 1:37:37 PM
From: energyplay	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 218007

They have some good PR people. The devices is not a black hole, but effectively a carefully adopted anti-reflective coating, like that found on camera lenses, sunglasses, and solar panels. It is a very wide bandwidth anti-reflective technology, and should have some nice benefits for both photovoltic cells and thermal solar devices. But the device will not result in any energy release. Thinking about the technology some more, this might really help a residential solar water heater being used at high latitudes (Canada, Russia, Korea, northern China, Japan, Northern Europe) on a cloudy day. Several different types of glass could be used around a pipe being heated, to reduce energy reflection.