CharlesMBrown
Registered Member
I was granted U.S. patent 3,890,161, DIODE ARRAY in 1975 on a chip typically consisting of billions of nanometer scale diodes which absorbs macroscopically uniform ambient surrounding heat, transforming it into an equivalent release of electrical power. The diodes, in consistent alignment, rectify and aggregate internal radio frequency thermal noise within electronic components (not involving antennas) into D.C. electricity. The diodes are in parallel first so the diode currents bypass each other. The forward current that a random half of the diodes release intermittently overwhelms the low reverse current released by the other half of the diodes. The net forward current of the diodes is aggregated in parallel into useful power at low voltage. Balanced groups of diodes in parallel are then connected in series to build higher voltage. The slight thermal noise of the load is unimportant because it is vastly overwhelmed by the great preponderance of net rectified power.
The electrons move uphill into the buss voltage within the source diode so they loose momentum so they become colder. The loss of thermal energy is equal to the gain of electrical energy released from the buss when electricity is drawn off.
The power needed to alter the width of the depletion region at the junction, which determines the conductivity of a diode, is deducted from the thermal noise leaving net rectified power meaning that less power is needed to sort the random power than is supplied by the random thermal power. This means that a variant of Maxwell's demon, M. Von Smoluchowski's trapdoor, applied to electrons, will work. This is a challenge to the Second Law of Thermodynamics.
The concept was tested in 1993 where more power than ~2 nanowatts, the power a single diode can yield, 1 /2 kTB where 1 / 2 accounts for rectification, k=Boltzmann's constant, T=temperature in Kelvins and B= 1 THz, the upper frequency limit of thermal noise, was measured from a chip consisting of ~5,600 Au dot anodes surrounded by SiO2 on a n GaAs substrate. The chip produced ~50 nanowatts as ~50 millivolts across 50 K ohms under professional test conditions including a uniform temperature bath of stirred pure inert oil, showing feasibility. Unfortunately the documentation of this test is poor.
This experiment should be corroborated. Chips better than the one used in 1993 are available though adaptation by adding a conductive layer to the face is needed. I would be pleased to advise at arms length.
Practical diode arrays require nanofabrication of arrays containing a great number of nanometer scale diodes. A test array can be assembled with carbon nanotubes selected to be semiconducting placed between Au and Al rails.
If this works, future appliances would get all the energy they were designed for from ordinary air or water. This energy would be clean, cheap, widely available, safe, quiet, reliable, and not emit greenhouse gas. Furthermore, air conditioning would release electricity instead of consuming it, which is basically more sensible. Small appliances would work cordlessly anywhere in the world out of the box. Many kinds of electric vehicles would become practical. Diode arrays in computers with minor inputs and outputs would recycle the heat from the operating chips so the system would not release heat or need external power while using lots of high power high speed logic.
I want this to be commercialized without fussy licensing restrictions on the diode array or its applications so all humanity can be involved in its synergistic development.
First, a prototype development group with great team strength needs to emerge. Later, many application development groups should emerge. Micro angel capitalization is the cleanest form of financing. A smooth, free, and fair market should support useful applications using commodity chips made by commodity equipment.
This is the latest version of an evolving presentation.
Aloha,
Charles M. Brown
Kilauea, Kauai, Hawaii
The electrons move uphill into the buss voltage within the source diode so they loose momentum so they become colder. The loss of thermal energy is equal to the gain of electrical energy released from the buss when electricity is drawn off.
The power needed to alter the width of the depletion region at the junction, which determines the conductivity of a diode, is deducted from the thermal noise leaving net rectified power meaning that less power is needed to sort the random power than is supplied by the random thermal power. This means that a variant of Maxwell's demon, M. Von Smoluchowski's trapdoor, applied to electrons, will work. This is a challenge to the Second Law of Thermodynamics.
The concept was tested in 1993 where more power than ~2 nanowatts, the power a single diode can yield, 1 /2 kTB where 1 / 2 accounts for rectification, k=Boltzmann's constant, T=temperature in Kelvins and B= 1 THz, the upper frequency limit of thermal noise, was measured from a chip consisting of ~5,600 Au dot anodes surrounded by SiO2 on a n GaAs substrate. The chip produced ~50 nanowatts as ~50 millivolts across 50 K ohms under professional test conditions including a uniform temperature bath of stirred pure inert oil, showing feasibility. Unfortunately the documentation of this test is poor.
This experiment should be corroborated. Chips better than the one used in 1993 are available though adaptation by adding a conductive layer to the face is needed. I would be pleased to advise at arms length.
Practical diode arrays require nanofabrication of arrays containing a great number of nanometer scale diodes. A test array can be assembled with carbon nanotubes selected to be semiconducting placed between Au and Al rails.
If this works, future appliances would get all the energy they were designed for from ordinary air or water. This energy would be clean, cheap, widely available, safe, quiet, reliable, and not emit greenhouse gas. Furthermore, air conditioning would release electricity instead of consuming it, which is basically more sensible. Small appliances would work cordlessly anywhere in the world out of the box. Many kinds of electric vehicles would become practical. Diode arrays in computers with minor inputs and outputs would recycle the heat from the operating chips so the system would not release heat or need external power while using lots of high power high speed logic.
I want this to be commercialized without fussy licensing restrictions on the diode array or its applications so all humanity can be involved in its synergistic development.
First, a prototype development group with great team strength needs to emerge. Later, many application development groups should emerge. Micro angel capitalization is the cleanest form of financing. A smooth, free, and fair market should support useful applications using commodity chips made by commodity equipment.
This is the latest version of an evolving presentation.
Aloha,
Charles M. Brown
Kilauea, Kauai, Hawaii
