Magnetic wires as "Free Energy"

[PaulLowrance]

I see thermocouples as a form of diode, as it requires to dissimilar materials. The thermocouple is caused by thermoelectric effects. Well, as far as I'm aware, semiconductors have the highest thermoelectric effects. On a molecular scale, natural vast temperature gradients exist, which causes Johnson noise. And Johnson noise causes temperature gradients. Who knows which one came first, it's like the chicken and egg question. Here's a cool video that shows thermoelectric effects with a diode array -->

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXA4I-1kbBc

These Thermoelectric devices are designed for an external source of power. In terms of converting natural ambient thermal energy into usable energy, it would be difficult to detect with such Thermoelectric devices as shown in the youtube video since they're not made with that many diodes, and such diodes are unsuited for the task. A far better diode is the SMS7630.

I've used the SMS7630¹ diodes, which have produce over 0.2mV DC with 156 in-series from passive diodes made with palladium and silicon. These are single diodes meant to be soldered. I would agree that it would require a diode array *chip* made with microscopic diodes to provide proof² that given enough diodes (microscopic) would produce usable amounts of power.


PL

References:
How Thermoelectric devices are made:
http://www.alibaba.com/catalog/11214927/Thermoelectric_Module.html
http://www.laserfocusworld.com/articles/302489
SMS7630¹:
http://greenselfreliantenergy.com/forum/index.php?board=15.0
Evidence²:
http://greenselfreliantenergy.com

[PaulLowrance]

TechStuf, may I ask how much the Terfenol-D cost. Sounds like some great material to experiment with.

sm0ky2, thanks for ebay link! That's amazing those units are so inexpensive now. I'm buying one. What a deal.


I had a half backed idea, which is reason for starting this thread. Basically, if the magnetic wire is circumferencially annealed, then the preferred atomic magnetic alignment occurs when current is flowing through the magnetic wire. Energy is released when this occurs. Normally such energy has nowhere to go, except by means of heat-- MCE, Magnetocaloric effect. This is a well known effect. When the field is applied, the material heats up. When it's removed, it cools down. This is used in deep freeze coolers. I was thinking that if the current is extremely low, and rises at a slow rate, then it may be possible to capture the MCE energy that occurs in bursts due to magnetic avalanches. IMO it would be difficult to overcome the net losses. The idea is to increase the current so that an avalanche occurs -->

http://chaos.utexas.edu/research/mag/mag.htm

Then remove the small DC current, and wait until NATE (natural ambient thermal energy) does its thing, disorder. Since the material is annealed with a net alignment matching the DC current, this is the magnetic materials lowest energy state. What is meant by "lowest energy state" is the ferromagnetic atoms are where they want to be. You could think of this as a pebble that's 10 feet off the ground. When the pebble is at 10 ft, it's in a higher energy state. When it's on the ground, it's at the lowest energy state, the ground state. So when NATE causes disorder, the magnetic atoms go to a higher energy state, meaning that NATE is converting thermal energy into potential energy, which is why the magnetic material would cool down.

The attached image is just an experiment. I did not do it yet, but if done correctly you should see a single avalanche when the switch is turned on, then when the current is removed you should see a reverse avalanche in the opposite polarity. The reverse avalanche could occur instantly or take hours or longer, depending on the type magnetic material. Also, for best results, the magnetic material should be 50% saturated, which could be difficult to set up. The wire could be circumferencially annealed by rapidly apply a lot of current where the wire is glowing red hot, then cooled down. Repeat until it's sufficiently circumferencially annealed.

PL

Edit: added pot to the circuit.
Edit: had the energy states backwards.

[TechStuf]

I got mine from Etrema products, a research division of Iowa State University for $20.00  Of course, the selection is a little sparse if one is only buying scrap pieces.  I'd be all over the stuff if I could afford custom pieces.  It is very brittle and quite difficult to shape, but it can be done.


The stuff is wild. 


Materials Science is about to go postal on us all, I'm thinking....



TS

[PaulLowrance]

At $20 I'll buy some.

I'm all for advancing science ... well, with a few exceptions, such as -->

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey_goo

PL

[TechStuf]

LOL!   Or Ice9.....or GMOs....or Clothinanidin killing billions of bees...or Chemtrails being used partially for population control/reduction....Big pharma....Chinese Melamine....Psyop Cwhoreporate Media....or morally bankrupt politicians....Oops, all but the first on this list and who knows what else are already being done to death.



Peace,



TS