On Sep 8, 2007, at 9:18 AM, Horace Heffner wrote:
I have spent perhaps 100 hours over the years trying to find a robust "steam-electricity" effect, but to no avail - never seem more than a fractional volt of charge.
A fractional volt is a lot providing the current can be made large. As with the dry pile, stack up a few thousand of them and you have some significant voltage. A small fractional volt result I think is due to measuring it using conductors, which somewhere have to convert from one metal type to another, as happens in the dry pile, and thus loose all but the thermal benefit. Getting the electron affinity benefit, which may in fact be a ZPE benefit, requires avoiding the metal-metal type conversion in the return circuit. This can be done using pulsed mode and capacitive linkage between cells.
Horace Heffner http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/
