Forgot to mention that the wording on this article, "...can covert energy at a 100 percent increase..."
seems to imply 100% 'increase' over the acoustic energy put in!!!! What, OU behavior? Well, we all know that those scientists must be 'delusional'... BTW, I'd like to correct one thing in my comment, "... and tastes like a duck, it probably WAS (not is) a duck!" Could you pass the cranberry sauce please... -Mark -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 01, 2008 9:28 PM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: [Vo]:Self-powered devices possible, researcher says... 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 No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.552 / Virus Database: 270.9.12/1821 - Release Date: 11/30/2008 5:53 PM 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
