Terry Blanton wrote: > On 3/5/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Could you please forward the details regarding that photo? > > Here's Tom's index: > > http://mysite.verizon.net/vzesfls5/files/ > > Terry
Thank you. The first document I read, "Final Report, May 6, 2006 (text)" said, "What I got was about 1 microvolt of DC" I was going to study his circuit, but he's already claiming successful results. I already know for fact from experiments and very fundamental theory that it's possible to extract energy from ambient temperature, so from my perspective there's very little reason at the moment to spend more time on his experiment(s).
The document mentioned Charlie's 1T7 schottky array 1 THz diodes, which is very interesting. Those interested in this research should install the free LTSpice simulator. Spice simulation programs are very accurate, unless one doesn't understand what they're doing, and heavily used by EE's. Of course LTSpice comes with a small amount of preloaded spice models, but there are thousands of freely available spice models on the Internet. Also you can create your own spice model for any part.
There are a lot of factors involved besides diode bandwidth, which one will quickly discover in Spice simulations.
As far as trying to break the 2nd law of thermodynamics ... please, lets all get away from that silly task for the simple reason there's no single interpretation of the 2nd law. The well-taken quote in the physics community of Physicist P.W. Bridgman says it all, "There are almost as many formulations of the second law as there have been discussions of it." Even the physics community at WikiPedia gladly display Bridgman's quote, and such physicists at WikiPedia are supporters of the 2nd law of thermodynamics.
Therefore, one is advised to concentrate on extracting energy from ambient temperature, not breaking the 2nd law.
Regards, Paul Lowrance
