Diode arrays

Dear Folks:

What is your opinion on the viability of this radical technology proposed by Charles M. Brown. They talk that the costs of a Kilowatt chip may be a dollar and last a million hours ( 113 years ).
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" I have invented, patented1, and tested2 a chip containing very many very small diodes that absorbs uniform ambient heat and releases D.C. Electrical power. This is a superior energy source that is very inexpensive and will power small appliances out of the box without a need for power wiring anywhere in the world.

This has great potential to improve the prosperity of mankind.

The chip will quickly become an open source commodity. Many applications should also be open. It is also a hard science tool for science fiction.

Michael Huff3 at the Stanford MEM network, a network of nanotechnology developers, has given me a quote that $50,000 would pay for developing this chip. He could receive grant funding directly to improve the accountability as I am an unaffiliated inventor that can not personally produce the chip .

1 U.S. Patent 3,890,161, DIODE ARRAY. As a 1975 patent, it may be available in image form only, not yet in electronically searchable text form. The original materials specified in the patent have been superseded by C60 carbon buckyballs as anodes on an N type InSb (semiconductor) substrate.

2 In 1993 I commissioned the preparation and testing of an adapted satellite transponder chip containing 5,600 Au on GaAs diodes fabricated in a patch as an expedient for assemblers to find one diode where diodes operating at high frequencies have to be very small. Conductive paste was applied over the face of the chip to connect all the diodes in consistent alignment parallel as required. Next the chip was immersed in a constant temperature pure vegetable oil bath inside a shielding box in the California desert. The chip produced ~25 kTB watts where an output more than 1/2 kTB watts validates the theory that electrical thermal noise (Johnson Nouse) can be rectified and aggregated.
If replication of this test is desired, the chips may still be available as draw down obsolete stock from Virginia Diodes Inc. www.virginiadiodes.com . I have lost contact with the lab that adapted and tested the chip. The C60 / N type InSb version of the chip should perform much better. ~100 watts / cm2 @ 20o C @ 50% diode efficiency @ 1011 buckyballs / cm2 is estimated.

3 mhuff@mems-exchange.org http://www.memsnet.org/links/foundries

Aloha,
Charles M. Brown
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Kilauea, Kauai, Hawaii 96754
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Thanks for your attention

i love you i love you i love you. This is what I've been telling people about for such a long time. Electrical technology that lasts for a very long time. Nobody believes me about it but thank you for this great new information!!

Right. But what about that technology? How the thing works..there's no discussion here maybe because of copyright laws or something!?

There is no actual discussion here...but from what I understand..if this technology works then we have solved a very big issue in semiconductor industry. That is how to give out more power with decreasing size of chips...the wattage per area quotient!!
(believe me this is a very very very big consideration while designing a chip and this is holding the next gen chips at present...how I know it?! Coz that's what I study!!)
to such developments....

The technology isn't applied because of copyrights. It's because, well, think about it. If a battery company that makes its money on batteries mostly that just don't last is opponents with a battery cell that doesn't die....do you think they're going to take it sitting down? They'll discredit the maker and make them look like a fool, make information that makes the finder's discoveries look fake and untrue. This is all speculation, of course. There's no documented proof of any of it, and if it is true it makes sense why there's no proof.

I understand why he has given no glimpses of how it is going to work. But whatever way, if it works, we have hit a jackpot!!
But isn't that true for all the research going on!!

It is a jackpot. As well as the 8-cylinder car that gets 100 miles to the gallon. bought by GM and destroyed. people nowadays care more about money than the environment, and so our earth slowly dies.

*chants* Tesla! Tesla!! (i know it's not exactly the same thing, but they are both great alternatives )

tesla was a very smart man. I am going to build a tesla coil as soon as I can get my hands on good plans and...well...figure out what in the hell it actually does. Then I will attempt to improve upon it or implement it in a way that makes me some mad cash.

basically they're a wicked cool way of transferring electricity from A to B. like lightning, only not harmful to humans. only trouble is they can't really be used near electrical equipment without a faraday's cage (electromagnetic shield basically...).

unfortunately as you say pyro, large companies with vested interest in keeping expensive electricity tend to discredit research into them and other new technologies.

from what i know they work as transformers, producing high voltage and frequency electricity that can jump from the coil. the sparks can be herd also. all in all a pyromaniacs dream come true!!

oh but yes. Guys build massive coils in their backyards and play with the 30-foot electric beams.

Er... don't copyrights run out? think aboot it, DVD players are made by sony and the major electronics corporations, then a few years later, cheap imitations come out. there has to be a deeper reason than that.

no the items aren't copyrighted, they're discredited. It's a conspiracy....heh...

So, from skimming erich's article really quickly (it's past Dngrsone's bedtime), this guy says he can convert heat into electricity on a silicon chip?

I'm wondering where the catch is. If this chip does what he says it can, then he has opened the door to super-efficient computers... excess heat converted to electricity which helps power the computer that generated the heat. Anyone see the paradox here?

Right now, I'm not buying it... call it entropy, violation of Thermodynamics, whatever. I'll approach it again later, when I'm actually awake.

you would technically get an infinite power computer. heat transferred into energy that turns into more power and more heat. The computer would....oh damn....I want one

only real problem i can see with it is your going to need millions of diodes to get enough power to run things.

and that will be the angle the battery and power companies will be using. "far too many to make it a feasible idea..." "the costs would be huge..."

but what they'll fail to say is that if the diodes were mass produced, they'd be much cheaper, and also they'd fail to bring to the attention of anyone the number of batteries produced each year. think how many we use up, then toss away! the cost of that alone could easily justify spending billions on diodes.

but i fear it will just be smashed the the corporations. but then again Tesla's AC system was once criticised...