MONOTHERMAL Energy from Ambient Heat

[Feb2006]

"Early Monothermal working prototype, production
date 17 August 1995. Test units worked uninterrupted for more than a decade, powering LCD clocks and a tabletop fan in a room-temperature environment."


http://monothermal.com/monothermal.html

http://monothermal.com/inventor_patents/patents.html

[neptune]

This looks like an interesting technology . It would be interesting to know how it compares to say a peltier module on a cost/output basis . Probably not a do it yourself job in the form shown , as Phosphorus is involved .

[void109]

Wouldn't a device that generated power from ambient thermal temperature classify as an over unity device?  Is there any evidence anywhere that this functions as claimed?

[shylo]

Hi all ...nice find but I think it is nothing more than two dissimilar metals. Although the construction is such that it will last a very long time ,but with very limited output.Seems to be alot of this type of technology around just need to find a way to amplify the output.I've been working on this for about 5 months now voltage is no problem, amperage is coming up slowly........just got to keep trying .....shylo

[nul-points]

hi v109

Wouldn't a device that generated power from ambient thermal temperature classify as an over unity device?

yes, in the same sense that solar & wind power generation of electricity is OU

Is there any evidence anywhere that this functions as claimed?

there's a liittle evidence of the thermal relationship shown in a table in the patents


Stefan started a thread about a different thermal electricity convertor cell (but not much new detail over the patent):

  http://www.overunity.com/index.php?topic=885.0


in an unconnected experiment, i've recently had similar success with a DIY cell using much simpler parts (basically dissimilar metal, diluted honey, cotton sheet, paper sheet & child's starch glue)

my cell has powered an LED flasher now for several weeks (since 8th Dec) and the on-load terminal voltage has gradually increased over this time from it's initial value of 1.6V to 1.9V (whilst also responding to ambient temperature)

i include constructional details, photos and voltage/temperature graph in my thread:

  http://www.overunity.com/index.php?topic=10174.msg269055#new


so, at least three different references now to achievable & sustained thermal electricity generation from ambient heat (and it sounds like shylo is on the same path, too)

it's early days obviously, and the power generated is still low - but the technology appears to work, so i don't see any reason why we can't scale this up to useful levels of power, in the same way that we've done with the groundbreaking work done by pioneers like Volta & Galvani


all the best
sandy