Researchers create self charging "ambient" battery w/ graphene (Maxwell's demon)

[Mercure]

Havent seen this on another post..
But here's an easy way to create graphene.

http://www.gizmag.com/making-graphene-from-table-sugar/16953/

[broli]

Maxwell's demon returns, by the same researchers

http://arxiv.org/abs/1406.4622

We report experimentally that the electricity is generated from ambient thermal fluctuations across a non-ideal diode consisted of a silicon tip and an aluminum surface. The output is tuned by the contact force which modulates Schottky barrier heights as well as rectifying ratios of the diodes. The interaction regime between the silicon and the aluminum locates at the quantum-classical boundary where thermal fluctuations are appreciable, and the rectification of thermal fluctuations leads to the electricity generation. This finding offers an innovative approach to environmental energy harvesting.

To sum it up, they jabbed a piece if silicon into a piece of aluminum and found this asymmetric arraignment produces electricity from ambient heat. I encourage you to read the paper as it's very readable. It's strange that findings like these go unnoticed, wouldn't a wafer of such diodes produce many watts?

[profitis]

I was expecting this announcement sooner or later @broli.I myself shoved germanium crystals onto aluminum foil and got small currents.it is due to uni-directional far infrared reflection on aluminum in my opinion.

[teslonian]

I'm quite surprised there isn't much more on this. At first thought I believe it's just radio waves intercepting, germanium.. This reminds me of John C. Bedini's polycrystaline wafer he made where he showed a simple LED being lit up when he touched it to the material, there's a video on it, I'll dig it up later.

Radio Waves can't even hardly light up an LED. I think we should look into this more, especially since this is my first post after almost reading the entire OU forum.

[lancaIV]

Probably of interest :


https://www.lenr-forum.com/forum/thread/6414-physicists-build-circuit-that-generates-clean-limitless-power-from-graphene/