Litroenergy - New Light Source Material

[ckaihatsu]

http://www.createthefuturecontest.com/pages/view/entriesdetail.html?entryID=567
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/

Litroenergy - New Light Source Material Category: Sustainable Technology

Steve Stark (MPK Co)
MPK CO.
Champlin (Clayton, WI), MN US
[email protected]


Litroenergy is a patent pending designed light source material that emits light for 12 plus years- without electricity or sun exposure! Our development/design of long-life, self-luminous micro particles called Litrospheres (non-toxic) emit light continuously for 12 plus years (half-life point) without any exposure to a light or other energy (not effected by cold or heat). This extremely low cost material offers 24/7 light, which can be injection molded or added to paint. It is 5,000lb crush resistant, stable and constant light source (gives off no U.V. rays). It is designed to give off almost any color of light desired. Our goal is to mass produce this material and supply OEM’s. Litroenergy has potential to save billions of dollars in energy costs world-wide. Litroenergy surpasses all known available lighting options for cost/durability/reliability (12+ years) and safety. The uses are unlimited as the imagination; however we predict the safety aspects to be the front runner in application (light safety tape, lighted life rafts/flotation equipment, light safety markings/equipment, etc.). Supplemental light source will be second as the material is bright and one can read by it, if you have some Litroenergy lighting you will not need to always turn on a light source that requires electricity. The use of Litroenergy in toys, sports/camping equipment, bikes and novelty uses will be close in applications. The fill rate of Litroenergy micro particles in plastic injection molding material or paint is about 20%. The cost to light up 8 ½ x 11 piece of plastic 1/8” thick is about .35 cents. We appreciate this opportunity to introduce our patent pending designed Litroenergy light source material to the world.

[Bright Banana Beard]

From what I understand, the power plant will save itself ton of energy if this kind of light went to implement?

[ckaihatsu]

The press release there says that the light is strong enough to read by, and the photos at the website -- http://www.glopaint.com/ -- indicate that that would be the case, too.

The applications seem to be for small-scale things, though -- I don't know if the company has more industrial-scale uses in mind, or not -- perhaps it could be implemented as a replacement for regular lighting at some point...?

[mikelepore]

Does anyone know how it works? I assume it's not phosphorescence. Phosphorescent materials require energy inputs to raise electrons to higher states of the principal quantum number, and then the light is emitted as the electrons spontaneously fall back down to the lower states.

[ckaihatsu]

http://peswiki.com/index.php/Directory:MPK_Co's_Litroenergy

Probably Tritium; Not New; Not Dangerous; Not T100

On Dec. 10, 2007, New Energy Congress member, Richard P. George, Ph.D., Ph.D. wrote:

My best guess is that they are using tritium. Tritium is a radioactive isotope of hydrogen. It is an odorless, tasteless, colorless gas that reacts with the human body in the same manner as natural hydrogen. Beta rays from the tritium hit phosphors to create the glow you see. Tritium has a half-life of 12.5 years, which means that in that time the lamp will be half as bright as it originally was. Trijicon uses tritium in their ACOG rifle scopes in common use in Iraq and Afghanistan by the special forces (government issued) and thousands of individual soldiers who purchased their own scopes. Tritium is also used in some watches.

Beta particle radiation can cause skin burns and are most harmful when they enter the body (becoming small radioactive cancer causing bombs). They can be blocked by thin sheets of metal or plastic. Small amounts of tritium (e.g. one ACOG scope or one watch) have minimal radiation. You would have to have ~10,000 ACOG scopes or ~2,500 tritium watches break in one room to have any significant radiation or risk. I don't know about these paints but I suspect it would be hard for the tritium beta particles to escape the paint such that they could do harm.

The intensity is not very strong. This is good enough for night illumination of rifle scopes, watches, and emergency signs but it is not going to come anywhere close to matching the light output of or replace electric light bulbs (incandescent, flourescent, LED, etc.) or kerosene lanterns.

Tritium illumination has been around for at least 25 years.

This is not a top 100 technology.

[mikelepore]

Here's an handy comparison of the depths of penetration of alpha and beta particles. LINK (http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~scdiroff/lds/QuantumRelativity/PenetrationandShielding/PenetrationandShielding.html)