Background radiation reciever

[sm0ky2]

@blueplanet


It's GHz, not Thz.
The K-factor is not a NASA thing,
the concept itself was brought forth from the radio industry
and antenna design theory.


It is an 'adjustment' to antenna length based on the frequency shift
caused by variances in antenna thickness.
The signal changes slightly through the metal
So we change the length to compensate, reducing interference.

[sm0ky2]

On the quartz receiver:


This idea sparked my interest, though upon searching
I am finding a bunch of escatalogical 'crystal healing'
boxes, not sure the purpose (or if they do anything at all)


Then I find an interesting paper written by the guys at Berkeley
apparently they are using quartz-based receivers to convert
ionic plasma discharge into electricity.


As we know from the electric machines, ionic discharge radiates
at RF and microwave frequencies.
So there may be something there.

[blueplanet]

THz usually refers to the frequency band from 0.1Thz to 2 Thz. Of course i know what k-factor is but this is not an issue. If you have realized any cosmic energy harvesting device, please kindly post it here.  I would love to have a look.

@blueplanet


It's GHz, not Thz.
The K-factor is not a NASA thing,
the concept itself was brought forth from the radio industry
and antenna design theory.


It is an 'adjustment' to antenna length based on the frequency shift
caused by variances in antenna thickness.
The signal changes slightly through the metal
So we change the length to compensate, reducing interference.

[sm0ky2]

Turns out the 'quartz antenna' are actually metal antennas
a quartz coating is applied to protect the metal from
high-temp ionic plasma discharge.


The only thing close to a 'quartz antenna' is a doped-silicone
contaminated to the point of conductivity. (0.5-15 ohms)
At least that I've uncovered so far.


I'm not sure if pure quartz can be used to receive microwaves.
if this was a thing, we would probably observe all quartz acting
as tuned-frequency receivers, based on their physical dimensions?
I don't know....

[sm0ky2]

I plan to build a test-bed array, I need to work out
a few details, to accurately fabricate precise dipoles
of this tiny size.
But, the physics supports the operation.
It's really a matter of building a large enough array
that the reception becomes 'useful'


What is 'useful'???


Well basically it comes down to this:


1.06157 x10^-13 J/s
Or roughly one trillion dipole antennas per Watt
of continuous power.


This may be unfeasible.
Of course if we could build this, each unit would produce
24 Watt-hrs of electricity per day.