Capturing Solar Power With Antennae

necro81 writes "Researchers at the University of Missouri and the Idaho National Laboratory have demonstrated a new method of capturing solar power. Rather than using semiconductors to capture photons of sunlight, they fabricated small coiled antennae (several um square) that resonate with the wave nature of light. The antennae are tuned towards midrange infrared light (5-10 um), which is abundant on our cozy-warm Earth — even at night. They also demonstrated a way to imprint these coils on a substrate, like how CDs or vinyl records are produced, but could be scaled to roll-to-roll mass production. The usual caveat applies: it may be 5-10 years until this could hit the market."

Comments

Slow down and THINK before you use these.

[Dr.Bob,DC]

If these become commercialized it will be a disaster. These micro antennae will effectively absorb midrange IR light and reflect everything else back out as polarized light minus the IR. This is sure to cause skin cancer, retinal damage and other maladies.

Think about it this way: you require an across the board, nutritious meal of food as healthy fuel. Take away the IR light and you're eliminating full spectum light which is essential for health and nervous system maintainence. Make the remaining light polarized and *bam*: a public health disaster in the making. Subluxations Galore.

I was at a seminar in which suntanning booths ("Cancer Coffins") and their effects on spinal nerve health were discussed (hint: don't tan in those things!) The presenter is a well respected chiropractic doctor and researcher in Florida. In fact you can find his his videos on YouTube (look for "Maximized Living") with many thumbs up ratings.

At the break, we were chatting and he said he had seen an increase in the number of serious vertebral subluxations in people who went *TO 3D MOVIES*.

He went on to explain his theory. It seems that the 3D movies these people went to were all the type with strong polarized lighting being projected on the screen. *NONE* of his patients were at the red-blue type of 3D movie. Not one.

So these innocent people go sit in these movie houses as a treat and end up bathing themselves in dangerous polarized lighting. The worst bit is that so many kids movies are 3D now. Young spines and nervouse systems are being destroyed by this nonsense. No wonder we're seeing an increase in the number of parents bringing in their children for chipropractic care.

The public will never hear of this as big media and hollywood will silence critics..

Think about it: after a long movie, doesn't your back feel kind of stiff when you get up? That's caused by micro-subluxations. Moving around breaks those up without any long term damage, but go home and sit on the couch and they grow into full-bore, dangerous, health damaging subluxations. Those are, frankly, worse than cancer.

Think about that before you put up these solar cells.

Take care!
Bob

PS: I can only post once or twice a day (thanks, BP shills) so I may not be able to reply.