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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 ). : " 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 The original materials specified in the patent have been superseded by C60 carbon buckyballs as anodes on an N type InSb (semiconductor) substrate. 2 In 1993 I commissioned the preparation and testing of an adapted satellite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 (808) 828-0297 4264 Ala Muku Pl. #C-3 Kilauea, Kauai, Hawaii 96754 abundance@logonhi.net www.diodearray.com http://peswiki.com/index.php/OS:CBC:Main_Page " Thanks for your attention |
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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....
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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!!
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*chants* Tesla! Tesla!! (i know it's not exactly the same thing, but they are both great alternatives )
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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!! |
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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.
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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.
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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... ![]() |
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