After reading this I tried to find where I could purchase some of this material, but was not successful. Building and testing it is a bit of a problem if the magetocaloric material is not easily obtainable.
Also is there ANY theory as to why it should do what is claimed to do. I cannot figure out what the mechanism would be, although I am very familiar with the second law of thermodynamics and Maxwell's Demon, having recently published an article on a device which breaks the second law using the demon, but at very low power and efficiency. Marshall Jerry Decker - KN wrote: > Hola Folks! > > On zpenergy.com is a claim of a magetocaloric free energy device based > on Maxwells Demon, interesting but I haven't seen that its been built to > prove it. > > I'd never heard of this magnetocaloric thing until years ago when my > friend Jack Veach in Irving, TX told me about the effect being used to > cool satellites in space with swept magnetic fields through ceramic > cores to essentially milk the heat from inside to outside. > > This article with a diagram is posted on the keelynet.com page until it > cycles into the archive; > > 05/18/06 - DIY Maxwell's Demon Magnetocaloric Free Energy machine > > You can build your own free energy machine if you want. It is observable > and measurable. No faith garbage. It is an example of atomic science > manifesting at a macroscopic level. > > For your machine get two samples of magnetocaloric substance. One > positive and one negative (one gets hot, one gets cold when exposed to > magnetism). Put one in a box with a magnet. > > Make a hole in the side of the box. Repeat this for your other > substance. Now with two sensitive digital thermometers one in each box. > > Join the boxes together so that the gas inside travels between the two. > Sit and wait. > > What happens is that one box gets hot the other cold. Not in a big way > but by 2-3 degrees. It will then stay that way. > > This setup is actually based on James Maxwell's thought experiment > "Maxwell's daemon" Sadly he died before the magneto-caloric effect was > found. Otherwise it would be a real world experiment. Any annoying > skeptics bother you on free energy just tell them to run the experiment. > > Or if you want to really put them in there place say: "Just look through > this telescope, Your Holiness." Skeptics remembering Galileo will > understand. > > / Supporting information; Magnetocaloric Refridgeration - Magnetocaloric > materials change temperature in response to an applied magnetic field. > The field supplied by a superconducting magnet cools a piece of solid > gadolinium, which in turn cools water flowing around it. > > Gadolinium has a magnetocaloric response twice that of iron, but Ames > researchers Vitalij K. Pecharsky and Karl A. Gschneidner have found that > alloys of gadolinium, silicon, and germanium show a response twice again > as big. > > The magnetocaloric effect depends on the way a material's atomic spins > align themselves. All materials store heat in the form of atomic > vibrations. An applied magnetic field forces the atoms into alignment, > reducing the system's heat capacity and causing it to expel energy, > which the water carries away. When the field is removed, the atoms > randomize again and can absorb energy from their surroundings, creating > a cooling effect. > > Shull has modified a magnetocaloric material, gadolinium gallium garnet, > by substituting iron for some of the gallium atoms. The addition of iron > tripled the material's response to a magnetic field. > -- > Jerry Decker - http://www.keelynet.com > Donations to support KeelyNet: http://www.keelynet.com/donate1.htm > Public Archive > http://www.mail-archive.com/interact%40listserv.capital-master.com/maillist.html > Order out of Chaos - From an Art to a Science
