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[Philip Hardcastle]

This might be tempting if it were not for the other bets you weaseled out of.  If you had not pointed me to that moletrap place.  I'd never have known about them.   Bets, as far as I can tell you would have lost many times over if you had not weaseled out.   How about you pay out those people first?  You know, out of a sense of fair play.

Sarkeizen you have crossed a line and libelled me, you post some evidence of your statement or withdraw it with an apology.

[sarkeizen]

Sarkeizen you have crossed a line and libelled me, you post some evidence of your statement or withdraw it with an apology.

I'll take secret option c) - Tell you to get over yourself.  The high-and-mighty attitude might work on the local yokels but I see more puffed chests daily than a penguin rancher.  The only thing distinctive about yours is that the pontifications aren't just silly they're boring.

Besides I think you and I both know what I'm talking about.

[MileHigh]

My posting continued...

So, temperature is a random movement of atoms.  The higher the temperature the more vigorous and intense the random movement of the atoms and electrons, where they bump into each other and ring like bells.  Naturally this movement and ringing makes the electrons jump up and down in their orbitals and so on.  Some of them take flight.  By definition that means they have extracted an iota of energy from the hot cathode.

So when you heat the cathode filament in a vacuum tube the 'classical' way by putting current though it you boil off electrons.  Likewise, I think it's reasonable to assume that if you put a tube into a 500 degree Celcius oven then electrons will also boil off of the filament.  I am not a physics expert here but I would not be surprised if some wandering electrons can land on the anode wire and as a result create a very tiny current flow on the order of 10^-6 amperes and producing 10^-12 watts.

There may be some issues related to the black body radiation of the very thin anode wire being different than the black body radiation of the very thick cathode wire.  I am just speculating, I am not an expert here.

My thoughts are that if you put a tube in a very hot thermal bath with tons of thermal energy exciting all of the atoms, that it may indeed be possible to extract 0.001 billionth of a watt of THERMAL POWER from that setup.  The amount of power that you are extracting from the setup relative to the ambient thermal energy and associated thermal capacity is so small that you would never in a million years be able to see it by making temperature measurements.

Yes, I am just speculating, I am not going to spend two weeks online researching this stuff.  But it sounds reasonable to me, and no 2LoT is being broken.  Many of us know that Paul Lowrence makes the "extracting power from ambient heat" claim using semiconductor diodes also.  He also extracts about the same amount of power as your tube experiment.  Tubes are diodes also - they let electrons flow one way but not the other.  So I am not surprised at all and I believe the physics behind the experiment can all be explained by someone that is much more qualified than me.

Just keep in mind that you are putting a tube diode in a bath of very high energy heat, and hot cathodes boil off electrons.  Apparently some get collected on the anode.  I am not surprised at all.

However, I am surprised when you make the leap from the tube test and claim that you can make a one-square-centimeter semiconductor junction produce a million billion times as much power as your tube experiment, and you don't even need a very intense hot thermal bath to do it.  Incredible!

10 remaining uncommitted licenses have been up priced to US$2 Billion each.

For me from a business perspective your line here is almost comical.  It's all just too fantastic and it's simply not real.  So Company X buys a license for $2B and then they can manufacture anything they want in unlimited quantities?  It all sounds ridiculous and is not confidence inspiring at all.

MileHigh

[Philip Hardcastle]

To the moderator/administrator,


Sarkeizen has maliciously libelled me and set out to be rude to every person on this site that has engaged him, I would like his details emailed to me and I believe he should be banned.

[sarkeizen]

Dear Sir/Madame

Please excuse Philip from school today.  He is suffering from a severely elevated sense of self-worth and needs time for the fever to resolve.

Sincerely,

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