Paul, Your idea is viable if we had the ability to heterodyne down from the Thz range with an efficiency that would make sense in recovered useable energy.
It is becoming more difficult than every to know what has been and is being researched due to the issue of now 'We Must Sell' our research papers. With hundreds of middlemen resellers of research and the US Government wanting to suppress everything because they are clueless, it is a wonder we even have research left in the US. We have plenty of bio research, but I think that has a different bent if you look at big pharma. So my 1/2 cents worth is, what can we give the common man now that is not under the control of some big corp? The TAPM is one such device as it can be build with some copper pipe and a hack saw, (maybe a few other minor thing :-) ), your 800W/m2 sounds great, but is there that you know of a way to tap it?? -----Original Message----- From: Paul Lowrance [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 15, 2007 11:31 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Vo]:A sound way to turn heat into electricity No offense intended to anyone, but something must be said about the obvious. Did it ever occur to you people that such a device if made small enough and react fast enough could draw significant continuous energy *anywhere* on Earth day and night? On a micro scale there's a vast sea of significant temperature gradients everywhere. On a nano scale even more so. Just a few days ago I posted info on such an obvious fact of science. I'm just baffled how everyone misses the obvious! It is intentional? I don't get it, LOL. What's going on ... did/do universities play subliminal messages all day programming poor students at a young age to never consider such thoughts, LOL??? Regards, Paul Lowrance Stiffler Scientific wrote: > Far from a new idea indeed, what is new is that it is moving closer to being > a viable technology. A thermo acoustic refer has been developed and tested > in HOT undeveloped parts of the world and found to work. The device is > placed in the sun during the day and it produces ice, then it is moved > indoors at night and keeps foods cold until the next day. What one must see > is that there are NO moving parts. The device can be built from material > that is not super expensive. > > Something (I'm not aware of anyone doing it yet) is to use this device to > reclaim potable water from the air. Granted the load is greater than doing > the ice, but it can be done, and is an interesting idea as all one does is > get to the dew point and dump the resulting latent heat which with proper > design can be used by the prime mover. > > Not new indeed, but better than some of the other hair brained schemes being > proposed by many... > > -----Original Message----- > From: Michael Foster [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, June 15, 2007 12:41 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Vo]:A sound way to turn heat into electricity > > > > Harry Veeder wrote: > > >> A sound way to turn heat into electricity >> >> http://forum.physorg.com/index.php?showtopic=15401 >> >> >> University of Utah physicist Orest Symko holds a match to a small heat >> engine that produces a high-pitched tone by converting heat into sound. >> Symko's research team is combining such heat engines with existing >> technology that turns sound into electricity, resulting in devices that > can >> harness solar energy in a new way, cool computers and other electronics. >> Credit: University of Utah >> >> University of Utah physicists developed small devices that turn heat into >> sound and then into electricity. The technology holds promise for changing >> waste heat into electricity, harnessing solar energy and cooling computers >> and radars.
