Hope you all had a very pleasant and filling Thanksgiving... now on to the cool stuff.
http://www.physorg.com/news147353581.html "Specifically, Cagin and his partners from the University of Houston have found that a certain type of piezoelectric material can covert energy at a 100 percent increase when manufactured at a very small size – in this case, around 21 nanometers in thickness. What's more, when materials are constructed bigger or smaller than this specific size they show a significant decrease in their energy-converting capacity, he said." If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck and tastes like a duck, it probably is a duck... Substitute "resonant effect" for duck... which is just more evidence that most all of science is built on the non-resonant behavior of bulk materials/molecules/atoms. What's possible if we were to find and exploit the resonant behavior of these systems/assemblages???? Granted, the resonant frequencies involved are probably very limited and in many cases a moving target... -Mark No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.552 / Virus Database: 270.9.12/1821 - Release Date: 11/30/2008 5:53 PM
