>From Jones: ...
> OK. This is an ostensible (apples-to-oranges) COP of over 3. > > There is room for improvement. He ran out of the best LEDs > (white ultra-brites) as you can see in the video, and had to > substitute some blues. A new shipment of whites is possibly > already there. > > The solar collector you saw in the video was possibly slightly > less efficient than 30%. However there are collectors which are > slightly more than 30% and will very likely self-power the unit, > even with no improvement. This is an embarrassing question to admit here but why is the solar collector arrangement necessary to prove that the Stiffler circuit is truly self powered? I guess I'm confused about the apples-to-oranges explanation, particularly since according to the apples-to-oranges scenario the device is currently running at a COP of over 3. What is the "apple" part and what is the "orange" part? I thought there was no external power source (that we know of in the prosaic sense) connected to the circuit. Is a battery still being used to manage a specific function in the current Stiffler layout? Regards, Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.com
