Sorry, I did not reply sooner. Thanks for the interest. Except for my encounters with Maxwell's demon this field is all new to me. Unfortunately I don't know anything about semiconductor theory. I found Sheehan's proposed epicatalytic method for violating of the second law of thermodynamics inspiring, because it only requires basic concepts from the kinetic theory of gases and chemistry to understand the gist of it.
I am interested in the experimental problem of detecting a violation of the second law without necessarily having to posses a thorough understanding of the microscopic process which brings it about. For example, I wonder if what appears as energy production in LENR/CF experiments is in fact energy concentration, i.e. a 2nd law violation. Harry On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 9:08 AM, Teslaalset <[email protected]> wrote: > A much wider set of principles can be found in patent applications by > George Samual Levy. > In particular his published provisional filing 61567455 which can be > obtained at http://portal.uspto.gov/pair/PublicPair is intreaging, > > My personal interest goes to the solid state versions of his claimed > energy generators. > By appying graded doped semiconductor slabs he claims to be able to > withdraw electrical power by temporary periods of violated 2nd law of > thermodynamics. > > The part that is key and needs some more prove by experts in my view is > following part of his provisional filing where Levy claims that by themally > shortcutting a graded doped semiconductor slab a current is flowing through > such semiconducor. > > Quote: > *"An analog of Loschmidt's adiabatic gas column thought experiment can > therefore* > *be implemented in a semiconductor with graded doping. Carriers in such a > semiconductor* > *develop an adiabatic temperature profile. If the heavily doped end and > lightly doped end* > *of the semiconductor slab are thermally short circuited, the temperature > of the* > *semiconductor at each end deviates from the adiabatic profile. The > relative temperature is* > *colder at the heavily doped end and hotter at the lightly doped end. The > hot probe effect* > *results in a current flowing through the semiconductor, which can be > tapped by* > *electrodes. This particular implementation combines in a single > semiconductor slab two* > *aspects of the Loschmidt's thought experiment: the adiabatic gradient in > the gas and the* > *heat engine (Seebeck device)."* > > We can further discuss if found interesting enough. > > > > On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 3:25 AM, H Veeder <[email protected]> wrote: > >> The Paradigm Energy website is now empty (although you can still download >> the papers at the links given on the MFMP page). In the comments section >> Ryan Hunt explains why: >> >> <<That website has since been taken down. :( They decided not to do their >> research openly in the interest of being able to secure private funding and >> guarding against getting patented out of the game by onlookers is what I >> heard.>> >> >> Harry >> >> On Sat, Sep 13, 2014 at 3:29 PM, H Veeder <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> The authors have set up an open source organisation to develop the >>> _epicatalysis_ phenomena which they believe is producing the heat. >>> >>> >>> http://jointheparadigm.com/what-is-epicatalysis/ >>> >>> Harry >>> >>> On Sat, Sep 13, 2014 at 2:47 PM, H Veeder <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Research (published in the peer reviewed journals Physical Review E and >>>> Foundations of Physics) mentioned on the MFMP site argues that the second >>>> law of thermodynamics is not a law but only a rule of thumb. >>>> >>>> >>>> http://www.quantumheat.org/index.php/en/follow/old-experiments/follow-2/412-2nd-rule-of-thumb-of-thermodynamics >>>> >>>> Harry >>>> >>> >>> >> >
