(December 21, 2011 at 3:02 pm)Moros Synackaon Wrote: While absorbing thermal energy through contact with a super cooled surface seems wise, it isn't, as there is still an area of which a differential amount of heat must flow through, thus the point of contact can and will be magnitudes higher.
It would never work even if all the projectiles were molten copper formed from an Iraqi IED.
That's the immediate failure point to me.
But if we apply Seebeck effect
- to the material, the thermal energy could naturally converted to electric energy. I think the superconductivity could greatly increase the efficient of Seebeck effect.
To address the greater magnitudes of thermal energy, we could increase the flow of LN to superconductivity like, 1200 cycles per second?
The kinetic energy of bullets managed to penetrate the modern armor just because the kinetic energy converted into thermal energy in the moment of bullet contacted the target [like hot knife through butter]. I think it's possible for superconductivity to absorb and convert all of thermal energy to electric energy if superconductivity remained super cooled.
