----- Original Message ----- From: "Charles M. Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <vortex-l@eskimo.com> Sent: Monday, March 05, 2007 3:58 PM Subject: Re: [Vo]: Re: Diode array 070304
>A single diode would produce the least power for the least > overcome load. It is the hardest to measure and least > productive. It can be done but is overly academic. Never mind, it would be a first step in the right direction, how would you go about measuring it? To Paul: stop the ad hominem. Michel > Candidate abrasives for sandpaper can be tested by trying > one grain but practical surface smoothing isn't done that > way. > > I am looking for people that sincerely want to escape the > Second Law of Thermodynamics. > > Mon, 5 Mar 2007 10:47:50 +0100 > "Michel Jullian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>"Charlie, Charlie, Charlie Brown" (sorry couldn't >>resist), why don't you just try this scheme with a single >>resistor and diode in a good Faraday cage rather than >>spamming us with it regularly? >> >>Such a prototype wouldn't cost much compared to my >>Sterling engine + heat pump scheme ;-) >> >>Michel >> >>----- Original Message ----- >>From: "Charles M. Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>To: <vortex-l@eskimo.com> >>Sent: Monday, March 05, 2007 2:07 AM >>Subject: [Vo]: Diode array 070304 >> >> >>> The Johnson noise produced in resistors is A.C. which >>> will have an average voltage of zero. A group of >>>resistors >>> will have act like one equivalent resistor. Diodes in >>> consistent alignment parallel will conduct more Johnson >>> noise current and less voltage when the internal >>>electrons >>> move from the cathode to the anode. A rectified residue >>>of >>> Johnson noise power will be aggregated on the buss >>>sheets >>> that merges the outputs of all the consistently aligned >>> diodes, The anodes connected to one buss and the >>>cathodes >>> connected to a second buss. Aggregated D.C. power can be >>> tapped from the busses while an equivalent amount of >>> ambient thermal energy is absorbed. Last I heard, Paul >>> agrees with this design. IIRC Jones Beene rejects it >>> without comment, and I agree with Paul's further >>> deductions that a resistor / LED array would convert >>> ambient heat into light and Paul's other approach that a >>> ambient IR photocell would convert ambient heat into >>>D.C. >>> electrical power where an extensive cathode would be the >>> negative terminal. I believe that the diode array is the >>> most practical method. I do not believe that lenses or >>> mirrors will concentrate ambient IR. >>> >>> I applied for Branson's prize without spelling out that >>> the way to use apply diode arrays to CO2 reduction >>>would >>> be to use diode arrays as air conditioners in tropical >>> climates and use the resultant electrical power to >>> decompose CO2; I mentioned that air conditioners would >>> yield electrical power but I neglected to immediately >>>tie >>> this attribute to CO2 decomposition. I mailed my >>> narritive in early Feb and have not received an >>> aknowlegement or reply. >>> >>> Aloha, >>> >>> Charlie >>> >> >
