Light powered lightbulb

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  1. IncogNegro Banned Banned

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    Could we coil copper, surround it with a tube of mirrors, then use a laser pointer to flow the current?
     
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  3. origin Heading towards oblivion Valued Senior Member

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    Where do you think the current would come from? The laser? How would a photon induce a current in copper?
     
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  5. billvon Valued Senior Member

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    Short answer - no.
     
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  7. IncogNegro Banned Banned

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    Maybe a natural frequency opposite of coppers natural color frequency would react against the electrons in the copper?
     
  8. billvon Valued Senior Member

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    Copper doesn't have a "natural frequency." If you bombard copper (or anything really) with high enough energy photons you will liberate some electrons. This is called the "photoelectric effect." However this will not induce an overall current in the copper since they will either be reabsorbed by the copper or disappear into space.
     
  9. arauca Banned Banned

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    Why not take two pieces of glass and each piece of glass coat with mono layer if silver and pass the lasser beam between the two glass silver coated sheet ( multiinternal reflection ) and see if some current is generated , since in an reflection you will have an off and on which will be an occilator.
     
  10. eram Sciengineer Valued Senior Member

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    From the title it sounds like some kind of perpetual self powering machine.

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    based on the 2nd LoTD, not possible.
     
  11. Russ_Watters Not a Trump supporter... Valued Senior Member

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    Looks to me like you just mixed together a bunch of scientific sounding words, hoping they would form a coherent thought. Sorry, but they don't.
     
  12. IncogNegro Banned Banned

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    Self powered? Perpetual?

    um... are you all aware glass reflects only the visible spectrum of light? And even that shines through a bit...

    Creating electric current with electromagnetic energy..... fancy words.
     
  13. IncogNegro Banned Banned

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    I don't have materials... Not in a school that does either.
     
  14. leopold Valued Senior Member

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    wrong.
    any length of wire will have a distributed capacitance, the length of wire the inductance.
    take it from there.
     
  15. IncogNegro Banned Banned

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    Even your body has a natural frequency which vibrates consciousness from a collective equilibrium comprised of .025% ( or a near statistically insignificant amount) to allow you to function for a short time above gods command.- Or live.

    But everything contains the same ratio at some point (astronomical or subatomic) In which the amount it contains this ratio determines its overall form... Or elemental value
     
  16. billvon Valued Senior Member

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    Copper doesn't have a natural frequency. If you disagree, state what you believe copper's natural frequency to be.
     
  17. Aqueous Id flat Earth skeptic Valued Senior Member

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    If you explore that further you'll realize that the impedance in a wire just relates to its size and shape, and that impedance is completely different than any natural frequency alluded to in the OP from the spectrum that gives copper its color.
     
  18. Aqueous Id flat Earth skeptic Valued Senior Member

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    The presence of light will not affect any current already present nor will it generate a current.
     
  19. leopold Valued Senior Member

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    in my example it would depend on the length of copper and its proximity to other conductive surfaces.
    with very sort pieces in open air this frequency will be very high.

    as to "natural frequency" i would guess that would depend on the temperature of the copper.

    i realized that after i posted.
     
  20. Russ_Watters Not a Trump supporter... Valued Senior Member

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    And if you string it onto a guitar and strum it, it will also have a natural vibration frequency. But do you really think the OP knows enough to have actually been talking about one of those "natural frequencies"? I don't.
     
  21. IncogNegro Banned Banned

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    Ignorance of a fact is no excuse. Between any two objects there exists a natural harmonic. Otherwise they would not exist consecutively. Objects would appear and disappear if there were no harmony.
     
  22. IncogNegro Banned Banned

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    In gauging ones intelligence... You expose your own.
     
  23. James R Just this guy, you know? Staff Member

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    Please give an example.

    What does that mean?

    Why?
     

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