Living creatures are very complex but the energy they use
can be traced from their food. I don't know why living
creatures are not able to nanofabricate subsystems that
get energy by getting around the Second Law on the
nanometer scale; such creatures would not need food. One
answer is that feedstocks are pushed at creatures as they
are born, live, and die by various cycles from synergistic
partners. Plants that use solar energy were established as
partners to animals. Second Law circumventing subsystems
were not developed by either or both partners.
Now human intelligence has advanced enough to build
nanometer scale systems that convert nanometer scale
thermal fluctuations into other forms of energy. For
example, fabrication technology can form diodes vertically
between electrically conductive planes so the diodes are
aligned the same way and joined in parallel. The
integrated group of diodes then have an asymmetrical
response to the random movement of electrons where the
diodes collectively passively aggregate net rectified
forward current at low voltage into useful D.C.
electricity and equal refrigeration.
Diode arrays are an unexpected benefit from advances in
materials science. Fabricating them is easy for a properly
supported development team but difficult for me
personally.
The diode array does not continue the present pattern of
getting rich from selling other, presently used, fuels.
Aloha,
Charlie
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