Horace,
Excellent insight.
One question though. You seem to be balking at H2 as the electron
transport molecule of choice. This would be due to its high mobility,
small size and mass and intermediate electron affinity (about halfway
between a good donor and acceptor).
What am I missing about H2 that would be a negative in this role? Yes
many materials are hydrided by contact but in a situation of low heat
(!300 k), and using gold plating on the acceptor and a nitrided donor,
then it would seem that the hydride could be avoided. Anything else?
Jones
Horace Heffner wrote:
I think an asymmetrical application of the Casimir force is indeed the
free energy source to be engineered for the electron transport system.
Here is how I think it works.
When the (or at least a ZPE tapping) electron transport molecule takes
on an extra electron it does so in a large orbital, i.e. it expands the
size of the molecule. This creates an increased Casimir force between
the transporter molecule and the donor surface. The low electron
affinity plus thermal action allows the donor surface to overcome the
Casimir force of the expanded transport molecule. This reduces the heat
of the donor surface. However, free energy in the form of ZPE fueled
atomic (orbital) expansion also helps the transport molecule break the
increased Casimir force bond.
When the electron transport molecule arrives at the acceptor surface, it
is more strongly attracted to that surface than the donor surface, due
to the high electron affinity of the acceptor surface. However, due to
its large size, it is also attracted by a large Casimir force. The
result is that the transport increases both the thermal energy and
electrical energy of the acceptor electrode upon impact. After the
discharge of the transported electron, the size of the remaining
transport molecule is reduced. Its Casimir force with the acceptor
surface is reduced. It takes away some of the heat it brought to the
acceptor, but not as much as it donated when it arrived. So, the net
effect is the ability to achieve a higher electrical potential plus
excess heat at the donor electrode due to the Casimir force asymmetries
in the process.
Summarizing: The transporter arrives small at the donor and leaves fat,
but the Casimir force is overcome by donor heat plus the negative
electron affinity of the donor plus ZPE atomic expansion energy. The
transporter arrives fat at the acceptor but leaves small, thus gaining
back the Casimir force energy lost at the donor site, plus the
differential electron affinity energy plus the atomic expansion energy
acquired at the donor surface. The net effect is excess electrical and
thermal energy.
On Sep 8, 2007, at 1:17 PM, Jones Beene wrote:
... speaking of
"negative affinity" for the donor - there is boron
nitride would possibly be a double-donor, so to speak
and would not hydride.
BN is indeed an interesting substance in that it is fairly inert and
electronegative, but yet a non-conductor. The fact it is a non-conductor
is a problem in hat it would have to be used in a thin enough layer that
electrons could tunnel to the surface to replenish those lost to
transport molecules. This might cause a loss of energy to provide a
field to make the tunneling feasible at sufficient current. A conductor
might be better.
Hydrogen actually weakly binds to and can be adsorbed by boron nitride.
See:
http://www.nano.com/news/archives/publications/Hydrogen%20adsorption%20on%20boron%20nitride%20nanotubes.pdf
http://tinyurl.com/2mcen5
I would expect BN saturated with hydrogen to be very strongly
electropositive.
Hydrogen forms boron hydride, and also reacts with nitrogen to form
ammonia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diborane
so there might be some eventual surface deterioration in a pure hydrogen
environment, or an acid environment, especially if it is hot.
At high temperature BN is reactive with water.
http://www.espimetals.com/msds's/boronnitride.pdf
Hydrogen is one of the most reactive substances around, and it is
difficult to contain long term.
Unrelated, but BN applied in a few molecules thick layer might make an
useful backside electrode coating for gas mode back side driven cold
fusion, but it would take periodic maintenance - which may not be a
problem depending on how often.
Horace Heffner
http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/
