Vorts,
We talked about Feynman ratchet wheels weeks ago. They may
or may not mechanically rectify random thermal impacts
into irregular but one way rotation.I believe that
multiple pawls wold improve it enough to mechanically
rectify random thermal impacts into irregular but one way
rotation because the drag imposed by many ratchets is
proportional to the number of pawls while the probability
of having at least one randomly swinging pawl blocking
counter rotation increases exponentially to the number of
pawls.
Aloha,
Charlie
