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This discussion has reminded of a solution to our potable energy problems.
This ideal is probably as useful as when I though of my perpetual motion 
magnet motor which could never work, but I will throw it out anyways...

Solar cells work by using photons to knock out electrons in a silicon crystal
structure correct?  Now I am wondering if something could be make to use
the same principle of "knocking" electrons around using cosmic rays?  If you
developed such a material you could sandwich it with a thin layer of a 
radio active substance hence producing a battery that would literally last
a lifetime.  If this solar cell substance worked as efficiently as current
solar cells and could produce .5 volts and say 1 amp for a 4 inch square 
sheet.  You could make a nice 12 volt cell that would be about 4 inches square
and maybe 1 inch heigh that would produce power for a long long time.  

Of course it would have to be enclosed in lead or something to protect the
users from the radioactivity, but that can be done I believe...

OK shoot holes thorough this idea...

								- Dan
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             Daniel Joseph Rubin     rubin@cis.ohio-state.edu 
     
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