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Subject: Re: Solar cells
Date: Oct 27, 11:09 am
Poster: pat

On Oct 27, 11:09 am, pat wrote:

>Could you surround the fusor with solar cells to produce energy? I understand that they only covert 10% of the energy from light.

If you were to put the solar cells on the outside
of the device, and operate the system either
in sunny Arizona, or up in geosynchronous orbit,
then yes, I think it may be possible to produce
electrical power from electromagnetic
radiation.