On Sep 9, 2007, at 6:33 AM, Jones Beene wrote:
Horace Heffner wrote:
OK - let's pile-it-on ... with ZPE
Well, Jones, I think you sure came up with a winner idea this time!
Well it seems we had the similar ideas almost simultaneously,
Actually it was a synchronicity of sorts. I had been working on the
Clarendon pile concept. In fact, I had already done the calculations
posted for the Clarendon pile a couple days prior to when you posted:
On Sep 6, 2007, at 7:23 PM, Jones Beene wrote:
Wiki has a pretty good article on electron affinity:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electron_affinity
Here is the thought (I have not checked to see if this
is a "re-invention" of someone else's idea) - take two
electrodes and a working medium, and hydrogen is the
only working medium that fits into this concept very
well (73 kj/mol)...
- such that one electrode has a much lower electron
affinity than does the H2 (zinc works well ~0) and the
other has a much higher (gold plated copper works here
~223).
I had an erie feeling as the next day I typed the numbers and
formulas from a page handwritten just days before and which I had
almost thrown out. I feel a bit stupid that it took me a little bit
to realize the pile operation and electron affinity transport
concepts were so similar, except for the transport molecule, but at
least my mind had been primed enough to recognized right off the
possibilities your idea for electron affinity based transport might
have. From that point the ideas flooded out and are still coming.
Horace Heffner
http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/
