Howdy Charlie,
Surprisingly, your thoughts parallel a view of a mental comparison we hold
about the cavitation " needle pitting" we observe on the surface of our high
speed rotating member in vacuum inducting chlorine gas in certain
applications usually with seawater or brackish water infiltration. The
rotating member is made of UHMW high density polyethene and the cavitation
attack can be as deep as 3/8 inch. According to our experience with
cavitation phenomena NO pitting should occur with UHMW. Bronze and non
ferrous metals love to be attacked.. but .. UHMW.. no way , shouldn't
happen.. unless. . a process at the atomic level exists so perhaps your
explanation has greater merit.
Richard
Vorts,
Could the electron affinity transporter based on H2 or CO2 or H20 be
simplified to use an array of LaB6 (a stable low work function material)
orthogonal needles facing a flat anode with a nanometer scale gap in a
vacuum? There would be preferential electron transport from the needle to
the plate. A variant, which I hereby put in the public domain, is to have
a 3 ? 7 angstrom insulating solid that electrons can tunnel through
instead of a vacuum. This is also a variant of a diode array where
Schottky anodes abut n type semiconductors. It is difficult for me to
decide between the two.
I was unimpressed with Feynman's dismissal of diodes as thermal /
electrical ratchets which he mentioned in passing as doomed to fail after
doing most of his presentation with his paddle wheel / ratchet wheel /
pawl device which he taught was doomed to fail.
I believe that a variation with multiple unsprung pawls would rectify the
Brownian motion driven ratchet wheel's rotation. Having at least one pawl
in blocking position would stop the wrong way rotation while the pawls
would move at random without pounding the incline. The probability of no
blocking decreases exponentially to the number of pawls.
Aloha,
Charlie
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