This Invention comes from Israel and the Ben G University
The Inventor is called Professor Herman Branover who was one of Russia brilliant scientists in the study of fluid dynamics.
He also had the distinction of being the first full Professor allowed to emigrate to Israel during the time of communist rule in the former U.S.S.R.
On the roof of Professors Branovers laboratory is part of the machine which he is designing to convert solar heat into large quantities of electricity for Industrial purposes.
It is a break through which promises to revolutionize solar energy.
His idea is not new as it was first described by Michael Faraday in 1840 ,but the real scientific research in this area started 120 years later under the formidable title of Magneto Hydro dynamics.
What is new and exciting is Professor Branovers application of MHD to solar energy.
Producing not only electricity but also heat in the form of stream.
The Professor working model may not appear to be either valuable or important but this new method of harnessing the Suns energy has captured the imagination of solar scientists and industrialists from around the world.
Usually most solar energy collectors are cooled by oil or water.
Professor Branover and the team use theirs in a different way.
They circulate liquid metals like mercury sodium potassium because they need these liquids in their conversion systems.
Because liquid metals are high heat conductive the collectors are able to produce higher temperatures.
Our system is basically different in that it does not have a turbine nor a generator in the conventional sense.
What we do have is a flow of hot liquid metal in a pipe.
This then directed into a channel the heart of the system.
Around this channel are positioned permanent magnets on either side of the system .
They have electrodes placed at 90 degress across the magnetic field..
So that we have movement of liquid metal flowing along the channel and crossing a magnetic field thus
Allowing an electro motive force to be created.
Now elementary physics says that if a conductor is crossing magnetic field electricity occurs or is induced.
There is no mechanical movement of moving parts apart from the movement of the liquid metal.
The inventors also seems to think that this method of electrical generation is at lest 33% more efficient than generators of conventional means.
