HABTEC SOLAR CONVERTER

[MarkE]

Yes, they will recognize that heating a material  enough to overcome its work function reduces towards zero the additional work that has to be done to pass current between two electrodes separated by a vacuum.

[sarkeizen]

I believe Philip's concept is viable.

Why exactly?

He spent much energy and time trying to develop a high tech version that would solve the worlds energy problems and faced many skeptics and problems and was so criticized here for his failures.

He was criticized for making ridiculous claims about his ability to deliver the alleged technology...and being an enormous, gaping, world-consuming asshole.  He was the Galactus of assholes.

Again he is faced with criticism and negativity for giving away an easily built device that falls totally within the open source rules of this forum

Giving away, charging or creating a free-energy rectal suppository all of those things are worthy of the same criticism.  However if my "negativity" is as Philip often implied the reason he packed up shop then I feel rather justified that my efforts have succeeded in removing one small tiny brown stain from the internet.

and is possibly the best free energy solution of any of the threads in this forum.

Agreed. Philip's could easily be the best idea on this forum.   However I rather suspect that most of the ideas on this forum - having to do with free energy - are utter crap.

I guess going by some logic, one could say if you fail many times then you can never succeed,

More specifically.  If you fail many times AT THE SAME THING WITHOUT ANY IMPROVEMENT WHATSOEVER then you should at least start increasing the probability that your idea is complete crap.   Philip never once doubted his own idea, no matter how many times he failed.

though the rule to success is if you fail then get up and try again.

You can write 2 + 2 = 5 as many times as you like.  It neither makes it true nor improves your ability to realize the answer is four.