Technology: Fuel Free non-Aerodynamic Aircraft and Watercraft A toroidal paraboloid reflector is oriented directly into the sun’s radiation with a focus on a toroid absorber. In this invention’s aerospace applications, an absorber (receiver) is a heat transfer medium, primarily a fluid, which in a hot air balloon transmits the thermal energy from the collectors (receivers) into a hot air balloon for Buoyancy.
Attached is the near commercialization of the SAE presentation I completed NOV. 3, 2010. I have a non-aerodynamic flight coming soon, which is solar radiation alone, no electronics or petroleum fuels. In prior art, photovoltaic systems have a huge commercial wing span for a couple of people to fly (e.g. Impulse). I can lift off from the backyard of a home, ascend to 15,000 feet in 40 minutes, detach the balloon, and then fly the high speed aerodynamic components to a terrestial location marked by illuminated parabolic drinking bottles - marking my landing sites 24/7. I have a retroreflective signature on the bottle to guide unmanned and manned aircraft home.
I have a schedule to mount a few hundred video cameras and other electromagnetic frequency recording devices to the absorber rings to view my favorite galaxy.
There are no precisely defined boundaries between the bands of the electromagnetic spectrum; rather they fade into each other like the bands in a rainbow (which is the sub-spectrum of visible light). Radiation of each frequency and wavelength (or in each band) will have a mixture of properties of two regions of the spectrum that bound it. For example, red light resembles infrared radiation in that it can resonate some chemical bonds. This invention teaches that absorber tubes can be antenna receivers by wiring in the antenna circuit specific to targeting a wavelength (a receiver or broadcast circuit), which is much greater length than any prior art antenna and can have all or part of the electromagnetic spectrum targeted "reducing" the fade between two regions of the spectrum that bound it. Nano and micro optical receivers provide the optical adjustments to receive optically accurate data points along the length of the receiver. In addition the receiver is so long compared to “point” focus receivers a 3D or stereoscopy image can be collected, which is the illusion of depth in an image by means of stereopsis for binocular vision (hundreds of points of observation in this case). Any number of receiver or broadcasters can be positioned within the focus of the absorbers taught in this invention, because the focus is as long as the trough mirror optics, with a concentric set of toroidal paraboloid reflector rings focused on the same point in space.
This research took me longer than I thought. Murphy of Murphy's Law is my uncle. Ha!
Sincerely,
David Zornes, Inventor of Fuel Free non-Aerodynamic Aircraft and Watercraft