From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@datamann.com)
Date: Fri Feb 15 2002 - 11:44:41 MST
John Clark wrote:
>
> Eugene Leitl <Eugene.Leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de> Wrote:
>
> >I don't think anything harder than soft xRays is utilizable in
> >solid state photodiodes.
>
> Then use a heat engine. With input in the millions and output at the
> 3 degree Kelvin microwave background level, efficiency would be
> close to 100%.
Not sure if you read my post on this. Since large quantities of hard
radiation pass right through objects, that which passes thru obviously
doesn't impart any energy, so your efficiency relative to total flux
drops as frequency rises. You'd have to develop a sort of MHD system for
x-ray/gamma ray streams.
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