Michel Jullian wrote:
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> I'll agree with Paul for once, LTSpice is truly excellent, not only free but
also one of the most accurate and fastest Spice implementations around. A must
have for anyone involved in EE. Graphical interface a bit surprising at first,
but quite efficient when you get used to it.
>
> Can't vouch on how well (how randomly) it deals with noise though, errare
programmerum est, plus one must not forget that such sotware produces another
source of noise, namely computational noise, which may not be as random as the
simulated one, and may be quite significant if you're looking at femtovolts.
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That's true. Example, if one's working with frequencies up to 1 GHz then they
would want to set the maximum time step to no higher than 0.1 ns.
For Charlie's application or anyone working with this technology would want to
implement LTSpice's ability to read from a file. The user would record *real*
thermal noise to a .wav file, which LTSpice would use as a source-- Very nice
feature!
Regards,
Paul Lowrance
> ----- Original Message -----
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> To: <vortex-l@eskimo.com>
> Sent: Monday, March 05, 2007 6:46 PM
> Subject: Re: [Vo]: Proof of capturing ambient temperature energy
>
>
>> 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
