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To: cosmicforce who wrote (495001)	7/20/2022 2:49:57 PM
From: TigerPaw	2 Recommendations Recommended By cosmicforce epicure Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541498

not a new advocacy My rooftop is shiny tin, except where covered in solar panels. It makes a lot of difference from the days when my roof was grey-black sand covered asphalt shingles.

To: cosmicforce who wrote (495001)	7/20/2022 2:53:48 PM
From: Elroy Jetson	3 Recommendations Recommended By cosmicforce Sam Wharf Rat Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 541498

Converting the energy of photons to electricity Does NOT generate heat. Solar panels get hot because the solar energy they DON'T convert into electricity gets converted into heat which radiates off the panel - just like a black metal panel. . Newer solar panels that also convert heat into electricity would greatly increase the efficiency of solar panel from 20% to perhaps 80%, by not wasting the energy as heat radiated off the panel. - pv-magazine.com

To: cosmicforce who wrote (495001)	7/20/2022 3:01:01 PM
From: Elroy Jetson	1 Recommendation Recommended By cosmicforce Respond to of 541498

Also unique is the fusion process Chevron is helping to fund. Plasmas of Boron(15) and Deuterium meet in the middle of a linear collider. The plasmas create Helium, alpha radiation with a 20 second half-life, a minimal amount of low energy neutrons - and a huge amount of X-Rays which generate electrical charge as they pass through thousands of layers of foils. Each atom of Boron and Deuterium produce 8.7 MeVolts of charge generated by x-rays. The TAE fusion process creates electricity without the bother of heating water or turning a generator. ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Chevron and Google were part of a $250 million funding raise announced Tuesday for fusion startup TAE Technologies, which has a relatively unconventional strategy, and which has now raised a total of $1.2 billion. Instead of a doughnut-like Tokamak design, TAE uses a linear machine, a long thin structure known as a beam-driven field-reversed configuration. Plasma — the most energetic state of matter, beyond gas — is generated at both ends of the TAE fusion machine and then shot towards the middle, where the plasmas slam together and ignite the fusion reaction. Most fusion reactors used deuterium hydrogen and tritium hydrogen as a fuel. While deuterium occurs naturally, tritium has to be manufactured. TAE’s fusion process uses deuterium-hydrogen and boron as a fuel. This fuel combo is inexpensive and abundant but does require a higher temperature than a deuterium-tritium fuel source. Michl Binderbauer, CEO of TAE Technologies