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Taken from KeelyNet BBS (214) 324-3501
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Sponsored by Vangard Sciences
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PO BOX 1031
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Mesquite, TX 75150
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February 23, 1992
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This file shared with KeelyNet courtesy of Bob Aldrich.
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January 6, 1992
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ALUMALOID SOLAR FILM
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At last! A new development in solar cell technology! A 72% efficient
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film you can stick on your window and have solar electricity. Or,
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buy window panes with the material etched on! For Cheap! It will
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cost pennies per watt. resent solar technology will produce no more
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than 15% efficiency.
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Dr. Alvin Marks, who used to work for Polaroid Land, who holds at
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least 117 patents, has some experience with photons. His background
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knowledge is in polarizing films. He has created a solar cell using
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quantum mechanics to collect the energy of a photon at a specific
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frequency. It is patterned after the photosynthesis process of
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plants.
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He uses a three dimensional thin-film array by which the photon
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gives up it's energy as it passes a sort of micro-rectifier-antenna,
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called a Rectenna.
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Two layers of these antennas are etched onto a thin approximately
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one micron-thick conductive polymer film. As the light photon passes
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the first layer, it gives up 40% of it's energy as electricity, and
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at the second layer gives 32% more, totalling 72%! These principles
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have been well known for some time but haven't to date been used for
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converting light to electric power.
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This technology has been patterned after the photosynthetic cell
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that has been developed by the French. It is tuned to the angstrom
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length of light that contains the most recoverable energy.
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He first developed the technology in the form of a thin film of
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plastic, but now has also developed an electron beam-writer that
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will etch the circuits on glass. These are actually circuits that
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tune into the frequency of the light, and convert it to electricity.
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One hundred square miles of this glass would produce enough
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electricity to power the entire country!
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His company is called Photo-Therm, reportedly he is selling stock.
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He can be reached at:
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Dr. Alvin Marks
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Photo-Therm
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359 Main st.
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Athol, Massachusetts, 01331.
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They/he are in the phone book also.
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Write there for more information and an informative tape.
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He got his first $300,000 funding from private colleges back east,
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but he left it open, (hasn't sold out) because he doesn't want it to
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be bought up by big industry. He is looking for more money. He needs
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$875,000 to do his basic research.
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Patent # is 4,445,050. April 24, 1984. Device for conversion of
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light power to electrical power.
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PhotoTherm has signed accords with China, to make Solar Cooking
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Devices.
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At date of this file, he has projected about 7 months till the
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poduction prototype is set up, and then another 8 months to do
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production. He is a production expert, this is what he did with
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Polaroid. Barring obstruction, we are probably about a year away
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from pennies-per-watt Rectenna solar film or panes.
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Source: Survivor Club BBS 213-663-1301
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