DiodeArrayResearch

There is no energy crisis, only a crisis of ignorance. -- Buckminster Fuller

Thanks to the Diode Array, a chip which absorbs ambient heat and produces electrical power. This technology can greatly improve the lot of mankind.

The ability to fabricate this device is emerging gradually. Few engineers and physicists believe that heat can be absorbtively converted unto electrical power. In 1993 a feasibility investigation prototype yielded ~50 nanowatts which is above the scientific criteria of ~2 nanowatts.

The scientists' protocol is for other researchers to independently investigate Diode Arrays and report their results. Micrometer scale Diode Arrays are available elsewhere. If a useful effect can be reliably created, commercial protocols apply.

DiodeArrayResearch wishes to bring this invention to the world in native mode. This means no secrecy, unimpeded shared enthusiasm, production costs pushed down with experience, extensive automation, manufacturers both cooperating and competing, and indirect philanthropy by leaving it, as cost savings, to the consumers. When a cheap high volume process is developed, many basic tools will be manufactured to supply people's basic needs. Small networks will pool the power for larger uses in communities and release surplus electricity from warm climates for consumption in cold climates.

Charlie

Mankind doesn't have to burn fossil fuel for electrical power any more.

Thanks to the Diode Array, a chip which absorbs ambient heat and produces electrical power. This technology can greatly improve the lot of mankind.

The promise is that the Diode Array will produce abundant, autonomous, cheap, clean, compact, reliable, safe, and quiet energy. Furthermore, refrigeration will become an electrical power asset instead of expense.

The ability to fabricate this device is emerging gradually. Few engineers and physicists believe that heat can be absorbtively converted unto electrical power. In 1993 a feasibility investigation prototype yielded ~50 nanowatts which is above the scientific criteria of ~2 nanowatts.

The scientists' protocol is for other researchers to independently investigate Diode Arrays and report their results. Micrometer scale Diode Arrays are available elsewhere. If a useful effect can be reliably created, commercial protocalls apply.

I urge that the Diode Array is brought into the world in native mode. This means no secrecy, unimpeded shared enthusiasm, production costs pushed down with experience, extensive automation, manufacturers both cooperating and competing, and indirect philanthropy by leaving it, as cost savings, to the consumers. When a cheap high volume process is developed, many basic tools will be manufactured to supply people's basic needs like light at night, warmth and/or cooling, refrigerated food and medicine, radios, radio phones, alarms, witnesscams, T.V.s, truly portable computers, small autonomous stoves and ovens, power, construction, home and shop tools, elevators and chair lifts, agricultural and water management pumps, small boats including mini subs, and scooters. Small networks will pool the power for larger uses in communities and release surplus electricity from warm climates for consumption in cold climates.

The chips are naturally long lived so they can become obsolescent but not obsolete or worn out.

Aloha, Charlie

Diode arrays absorb energy out of the air as heat, cooling their surroundings, while they make available a matching amount of electrical power. The intermediary, bridging both forms of energy, is Johnson noise? where heat causes the motion of electrical carriers in electronic components. When Johnson noise occurs in diodes, asymmetrical conductivity supports more electron flow internally from the cathode to the anode making the anode the negative side of an intermittent direct current electrical circuit. The electrical power produced and heat absorbed is increased by aggregating many diodes together in consistent alignment parallel or, because the voltage is low, parallel series.

Modern nanotechnology? can fabricate billions of diodes per square centimeter resulting in such a high power density that carrying the heat in and conducting the electricity out are engineering challenges.

A microcircuit prototype demonstrated scientific feasibility by producing somewhat more than ½ kTB watts of power in 1993. That was so long ago that corroborating experiments would be useful. The modern 1T7 chip from Virginia Diodes Inc is suitable. They are easily annoyed by unconventional uses of their products so relations should be highly businesslike.

There is no energy crisis, only a crisis of ignorance. -- R. Buckminster Fuller

There is no energy crisis, only a crisis of ignorance. -- http://www.bfi.org/?