Vo,
Joe Yater spent many years working with and patenting such diode arrays. He
even testified before a Congressional Committee regarding their unrecognized
potential.
More recent work in thermionics by others, such as Borealis Power, may have
superseded his work.
Mark
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Subject: [Vo]: diode array 070103
Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2007 14:44:59 +0000
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
