Business aspects of innovation

[Charlie Brown ARN]

The superior energy source I'm trying to develop, the diode array, where very many very small diodes absorb heat and release DC electrical power is widely taught to be impossible but heat would be a different phenomena if it was truly impossible. Ambient heat is free and plentiful. Diode arrays are expected to be decentralized and scalable. Diode arrays would power machinery to make more diode arrays so they can be made anywhere cheaply.

In concept as a simple, though, but extreme example, space colonists could travel in hollowed out asteroids for a long time with absorption of weak background heat from stars balancing their energy budget  for radio transmissions, propulsion and / or propulsion reserves and heat leakage through a highly insulating skin. Inside the colony, ambient heat would be recycled into electricity which would be used for a great variety of purposes sustaining and improving the colony. These uses then end up looping back the supply of ambient heat.

Diode arrays should become a commodity where production is routine. In this circumstance multiple suppliers can feed multiple buyers directly without a proxy price setting mechanism. There would be a few standards for everyone's convenience and then great autonomy in responding to the commercial situation. The aggregate should have a smooth outline of gradually falling price as suppliers improve their manufacturing processes. Everyone would also try to converge on the aggregate average price as a market signal of the equilibrium price. Management and production would be highly automated. This should be a very dull market.

Meanwhile society would go through a good but extensive change that I call the pinata economy as superior energy is applied to a wide and expanding variety of uses.

I don't have to have hands on money with this. I don't care who commits ~$50 k to the nanofabricator. I'll be happy to advise on the specs, if asked, for reasonable treatment.

Aloha, Charlie