From: John Clark (jonkc@worldnet.att.net)
Date: Fri Feb 15 2002 - 23:19:17 MST
Mike Lorrey <mlorrey@datamann.com> Wrote:
>Since large quantities of hard radiation pass right through objects,
>that which passes thru obviously doesn't impart any energy, so your
>efficiency relative to total flux drops as frequency rises.
The reason Black Holes produce X rays at all is because there is
a accretion disk of gas around it that is heated to millions of degrees
just before it falls into the hole, the enormous tidal forces compress
the gas and makes it hot, great stuff for a heat engine.
Another example is the H bomb, a fission trigger produces X rays and
heats some plastic foam to millions of degrees and compresses the fusion
materials. X rays are not neutrinos, lots of things absorb them including air.
John K Clark jonkc@att.net
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