Silly questions, have you made sure there was no heat source (such as yourself) in the room? Are the walls of the room at the same temperature as the air?
Michel ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Lowrance" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <vortex-l@eskimo.com> Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2007 3:40 PM Subject: Re: [Vo]: Ambient IR lenses or mirrors > Charles M. Brown wrote: > > I have not believed that mirrors or lenses could concentrate ambient IR > > because optical systems exchanges working angle for magnification, a > > situation that doesn't lend to preferential energy transfer. If > > experiments have worked anyway, please share the results. > > > > Aloha, > > > > Charlie > > > > > > Please contact me if you are serious about this and I'll find the guy at > overunity.com that provided experiments to demonstrate this simple fact. > This > would take some of my time to find the resources. Therefore I normally ask > the > person to give their word they will spend appreciable time studying and > performing the experiments. > > You might want to get a thermal gun (hopefully with 0.1 F or better > resolution), > which is best for this type of research since it directly measures the amount > of > FIR radiation emitting from an area. Last year I bought a great IR thermal > gun > on sale for $35. Yesterday I bought a pocket version on sale at Harbor > Freight > for $10. :-) In a closed and temperature stabilized environment you will > find > a temperature gradient in various locations around a parabolic shape. > > Last year I created a wiki on T-rays read --> > > http://emwiki.info/T-ray_Energy_Mover_Intro > > http://emwiki.info/T-ray_Energy_Mover_Dew_Point_Exp > > http://peswiki.com/index.php/Directory:PaulL:Thermodynamics > > tools: > http://emwiki.info/T-ray_Energy_Mover_Blackbody_Calc > > references: > http://emwiki.info/T-ray_Energy_Mover_References > > > Regards, > Paul Lowrance >
