[Fwd: [CrashList] Why `alternatives' are not alternative]
Shane Mage
shmage at pipeline.com
Mon Sep 18 21:00:46 PDT 2000
>``Licht and his coworkers say that besides besting the
>solar-to-hydrogen conversion record, their work opens the way to
>efficiencies not considered possible before. Using measured
>photoelectric efficiencies of seven semiconductor combinations not yet
>tested in hydrogen generation, they predict maximum solar-to-hydrogen
>conversion efficiencies of up to 31 percent.
>
>Thermodynamics theory says the maximum could range
>above 40 percent for a two-junction converter, but no one has
>previously predicted better than 24 percent performance for practical
>devices, Turner says. Experimentally achieving the new prediction
>`would be an accomplishment indeed!' he adds.
>
>Something is happening, but you don't know what it is, do you.....?
>
>-----------
>
>I'll take a wild guess. What is ... Hindenberg, for 200 dollars?
>
>Sorry, but I just couldn't resist.
>
>Chuck Grimes
Wrong name. Wrong by 180 degrees. Think Archimedes.
Shane Mage
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