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Using new infrared spectrum upconversion could yield 30% boost to current absorption of PV cells. 5. Inorganic materials: . Cadmium Selenide (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadmium_selenide)- A highly luminescent crystallized material. . Lead Selenide - (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/lead_selenide) - Infrared Detector "one of the first materials sensitive to the infrared radiation used for military applications" Organic Compounds: . Diphenylanthracene (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diphenylanthracene) - Used to produce Blue light in glow-sticks . Rubrene (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubrene) - A Yellow light source in lightsticks. Also known as tetraphenyltetracene, making it another derivative of the Phenyl Group (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phenyl_group) 6. 980-Nanometer Infrared upconverted to 550-Nanometer light (nearly 2x the infrared photon energy). Compared to the 0% that was originally being captured, even though it's not a 1:1 ratio, this is impressive. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/52138c6ae4b064b5b5f2d8a3/t/55b85619e4b0c18bf5ac3317/1438144106933/infrared5%287-10%29 Articles - Boost Solar Photovoltaic Cells by ~30%+ with Laser-Light (Infrared) 7. Quotes about the technical details already covered above. TLDR= "The inorganics in the composite material take light in; the organics get light out." (Bardeen) 8. (Didn't highlight this paragraph) Potential applications & uses for the infrared-sensitive materials = Medical, Data Storage & LED's. 9. Converting/Transmuting of light to different wavelengths can have an impact on any technology that uses photons as inputs or outputs. 10. Research was partially funded (grant money) by US Army= Night-vision use cases? 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Why not just call it "pot" or "marijuana" to be consistent? *It must have proven too difficult to change "joint" & "magic brownie" to more "sciencey" words. -The concentration/dose is higher or quicker-acting depending on the route of administration. Makes sense, given knowledge of drug-tolerance build-up. 3. This research is a Meta-analysis of "available literature" on drug dosage, frequency, etc... *Yeah, the Nicotine skin patch is 'Therapeutic...' That's why you slap on 5 of the suckers every morning! 4. Both intravenous & airborne (inhaled/smoked) products largely bypass the blood-brain-barrier, attributing to the more rapid increase in dose + decline via these methods. *Because of the peak-effect, users will feel a stronger withdrawal symptom (of sorts) & take more of the drug to "maintain" their level of effect. This leads to increasing & plateauing effects, causing the user to need more/stronger doses. 5. 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Let's find out what % that 1700 is out of the total households of Germany, Switzerland, & Austria: [Wiki Households by Nation](https://www.wikiwand.com/en/List_of_countries_by_number_of_households) >Germany | 40,076,000 Switzerland | 3,362,073 Austria | 3,566,489 Total | 47,004,562 1700/47004562 = | 3.616670228732266e-5 (...A REALLY small %) BUT, according to the article, 60% of heat demand is reduced in those 1700 households. 3. Ahh, the wonders of government stipulations. It's a good thing they wrote down that all buildings have to be "nearly zero-energy" from 2021 on. Now that it's on-paper, the humans will surely do it! By the way, I wonder just how close to 0 "nearly zero" is. Relevant Google Images Search: [0=Zero?](https://www.google.com/search?q=eu+near+zero+energy+building&espv=2&biw=1920&bih=993&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0CAgQ_AUoA2oVChMIlsPO_rqQxwIVURmSCh3YsgK0#imgrc=_ "How close to 0") //INSERT IMG FROM BRADLEYSCI FOLDER ONEDRIVE 4. ONLY 9 Houses Monitored/Measured!? Time for even more math... 9/1700= | 0.005294117647058824 or 0.529% (LESS than 1% of the homes) 30 Homes would have provided a recording of 1.764% of the homes, and would at least fall within Minimum Recommended guidelines for most Scientific/Statistical analysis. Found out that "Heiz" is a short-form of "Heizen," which refers to heat/hotness. [Heiz](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/heiz "heiz=hot") Researchers get a little pat-on-the-back & got to work with buddies at a technical school. I wonder what Mr. Stryi-Hipp's comment "over multiple heating periods" means: Is that several days? Weeks? Months? (I'm guessing days based on what follows...) €1,500,000 in funding from a super-long-government-bureacracy-name-that-just-keeps-going-and-going-and-going, because... Federal Government YAY! /sarc 5. Oh, ok they built a model/simulation! They must have run a bunch of tests with a light-source to simulate the sun & see how to optimize the heating from... Wait... Reduce the tank? 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