Patent ID: 8193440

Claim:
A hybrid electric generator for producing energy and power utilizing incoming infrared radiation to invoke a thermal differential to produce an electric current, the hybrid electric generator comprising: a housing having a top plate with a plurality of lenses for focusing energy on a collector plate, a lower plate having a plurality of ridges, said collector plate being mounted to said lower plate via a plurality of spaced apart mesh sheets, where each of said plurality of mesh sheets contacts a respective one of said plurality of ridges, each of said plurality of ridges being hollow and having a moveable isolation strip disposed therein, a carrying board below said lower plate, the carrying board having a plurality of projections, each projection having vertical sides joined by a top surface, each of said projections being received by a respective one of said plurality of ridges, each projection having carrying rods extending through the top surface thereof, a plurality of linear actuators controlling the carrying rods to effect movement of the ridges with respect to the projections, and a plurality of thermo-electric couples disposed in said carrying board where the thermo-electric couples formed of crisscrossed dissimilar metals forming bimetallic or semiconductor junctions to produce the Seebeck effect to convert the radiant energy to electrical energy.