Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!rochester!udel!udccvax1!anand From: anand@vax1.acs.udel.EDU (Anand Iyengar) Newsgroups: sci.electronics Subject: Re: Optical power distribution Keywords: power supplies, batteries Message-ID: <1690@udccvax1.acs.udel.EDU> Date: 30 Jul 88 07:11:02 GMT References: <1075@gethen.UUCP> <6315@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> <118@luna.UUCP> <5741@pogo.GPID.TEK.COM> <2627@kitty.UUCP> <1355@kodak.UUCP> <17588@glacier.STANFORD.EDU> Reply-To: anand@vax1.acs.udel.EDU (Anand Iyengar) Organization: The Lab Rats Lines: 8 In article <17588@glacier.STANFORD.EDU> jbn@glacier.UUCP (John B. Nagle) writes: > Some recent work at Stanford on solar cells has produced experimental ... >possibility of performing power distribution within electronic systems >via optical means. While there are efficiency penalties, in situations What efficiency do we have on the generation side? Anand.