Optical Energy Conduit With Concentration and Heat Filtering
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current energy generating and distributing systems are limited by localized, linear models of energy conservation and conversion, making them inefficient and dependent on entropy constancy, particularly in addressing the energy crisis and environmental issues.
Innovation Solution
A system that transmits solar and non-solar energy through heat-resistant optical cables using a mirror-lens system to concentrate electromagnetic radiation, converting it into focused rays, and then into heat, light, and electricity through filters, allowing for remote energy generation and distribution.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Object-affected harmful factors
If solar energy is used as the energy source, then environmental friendliness is improved, but energy availability is worsened due to daytime-only generation
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary action by concentrating solar energy during the day using mirror-lens systems and optical cables to store energy in the form of heat or electrical energy in batteries, enabling energy availability during nighttime when solar radiation is absent
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces intermediary components including optical cables, heat transfer fluids, and energy storage systems that mediate between solar energy input and continuous energy output, enabling 24-hour energy generation from a daytime-only source
2Loss of energy
If energy is transmitted through optical cables, then transmission efficiency is improved, but heat management becomes worsened due to concentrated electromagnetic radiation
Solution Approach 1:
Heat transfer fluids serve as intermediaries between the optical cables and the environment, absorbing excess heat from the concentrated electromagnetic radiation and dissipating it, thereby preventing cable overheating while maintaining transmission efficiency
Solution Approach 2:
The system utilizes phase transitions of heat transfer fluids (liquid to gas) to efficiently remove heat from the optical cables, leveraging the high latent heat of vaporization to manage thermal loads from concentrated solar energy
3Use of energy by moving object
If mirror-lens systems are used to concentrate electromagnetic radiation, then energy concentration is improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The optical concentration system is segmented into modular mirror-lens units that can be independently positioned and adjusted, reducing overall system complexity while maintaining high energy concentration through distributed focal points
Solution Approach 2:
The mirror-lens systems are designed with multi-functionality, serving both as optical concentrators and as adjustable positioning systems, thereby reducing the need for separate alignment mechanisms and simplifying the overall device structure
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
Enables continuous energy generation day and night, including non-solar sources, with high concentration indices, efficiently powering homes and potentially large areas, by leveraging complex optical waves and self-organizing behavior within the optical cables.
Implementation Method 1
a first mirror-lens system for concentrating scattered electromagnetic solar rays into a focal plane to produce focused rays
Implementation Method 2
A coupling focusing collimator couples the optical cable to three different filters where the complex wave is converted into focused rays and then into heat, light, and electricity
Data Source
AI summary
A system for generating and transmitting energy and methods of manufacturing and using the same. The system for generating and transmitting energy includes prisms, lenses, mirrors, optical cables or optic conduits, heat filters, light filters, and electricity filters. The lenses comprise lens systems to capture electromagnetic signals (wave and particle) coming from any source of radiant energy, from one or more sources of light, from one or more reflective surfaces, or from any electromagnetic wave, long or short. Upon receiving the electromagnetic signals, the lens system multiple n times the intensity of the signals by a method of infinitesimal folding of signals, a method basically consisting of an over-concentration of signals folding onto themselves tenth to millionth times in order to produce substantially concentrated signals and to project the substantially concentrated signals into one single optical cable. These substantially concentrated signals are transmitted to long distances as they are reflected through the interior of these optical cables or any especial optic conduits (in a conceptual manner similar to signal reflection in fiber optics cables). At the distal ends of the optical cable three filters will extract heat, white light and electricity.