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[utilitarian]

No, I am not dancing around.  I can prove that it produces a DC voltage across a load. A DC voltage across a load equates to power.  You are asking me to prove a negative, that it is not caused by other means.

This is too funny that the day has arrived when a *passive* diode array produces up to 0.2mV DC and conventional scientists tells me to prove that it violates conventional physics! LOL

Hello!!!! Do you think it's normal for diodes to produce 0.2mV DC inside an appropriate oil bath while inside 2 layers of metal shields in various rural locations???   

PL

I believe that you can produce voltage.  I just suspect that you are capturing ambient heat energy, ultimately coming from the Sun, and you are cooling your environment as you do so, though perhaps not measurably, as the Sun is able to restore the heat you drain quicker than you can measure any loss.  All this is in conformance to known laws.  Until you show otherwise, the 2nd Law stands, whether your device produces power or not.

[utilitarian]

Maybe I should just tell the world to go shove it and let you people continue polluting the planets air, destroying species, and the endless junk humanity is so good at. Hide your heads in your dirt holes while you dream up excuses to ignore the obvious.

PL

Plenty of people are working on solar, wind, hydro power solutions.  Show how yours is superior.  Right now, you cannot, and until you can, no one who matters is going to take notice.  The very real possibility of the situation is that what you have is inferior to solar.  Your efforts to garner support for your theory are commendable, but is completely understandable if no one takes up the banner.  Maybe you should take your own idea further before expecting others to invest time and money into it.

[PaulLowrance]

I believe that you can produce voltage.  I just suspect that you are capturing ambient heat energy, ultimately coming from the Sun, and you are cooling your environment as you do so, though perhaps not measurably, as the Sun is able to restore the heat you drain quicker than you can measure any loss.  All this is in conformance to known laws.  Until you show otherwise, the 2nd Law stands, whether your device produces power or not.

According to conventional physics, diodes convert *temperature gradients* into DC, not ambient heat. There must be a gradient. Where is that temperature gradient coming from?

PL

[PaulLowrance]

Plenty of people are working on solar, wind, hydro power solutions.  Show how yours is superior.  Right now, you cannot, and until you can, no one who matters is going to take notice.  The very real possibility of the situation is that what you have is inferior to solar.  Your efforts to garner support for your theory are commendable, but is completely understandable if no one takes up the banner.  Maybe you should take your own idea further before expecting others to invest time and money into it.

Who are you kidding?  Passive diodes heavily shielded in an oil bath in rural areas are not supposed to produce a DC voltage across a load. Solar doesn't work during the night. Solar does not work well at all when there are clouds in the sky. Solar does not work indoors. According to my calculations based on the best available small signal semiconductor physics, a heavy doped n-InSb Palladium Schottky diode with a contact area of 30nm x 30nm would produce over 4100 watts/m^2. Compare that to solar cells with a yearly average in Sunny California of 17 watts/m^2. No comparison. Diode array chips will work anyplace, mobile, stationary in complete darkness. 

Utilitarian, I think you're working too hard to debunk this. You have not said anything to disprove it. Fact still remains that my diode array produces a DC voltage across a load and no scientists has shown any math or experiments that explain it away with conventional physics. Your claims that it is heat source (temp gradient) from the Sun is just a claim. In the science community that is called handwaving. I have done the math, and your temp gradient idea is false, it does not explain my diode array. Do you have another explanation?

PL

[utilitarian]

Who are you kidding?  Passive diodes heavily shielded in an oil bath in rural areas are not supposed to produce a DC voltage across a load. Solar doesn't work during the night. Solar does not work well at all when there are clouds in the sky. Solar does not work indoors. According to my calculations based on the best available small signal semiconductor physics, a heavy doped n-InSb Palladium Schottky diode with a contact area of 30nm x 30nm would produce over 4100 watts/m^2. Compare that to solar cells with a yearly average in Sunny California of 17 watts/m^2. No comparison. Diode array chips will work anyplace, mobile, stationary in complete darkness. 

Utilitarian, I think you're working too hard to debunk this. You have not said anything to disprove it. Fact still remains that my diode array produces a DC voltage across a load and no scientists has shown any math or experiments that explain it away with conventional physics. Your claims that it is heat source (temp gradient) from the Sun is just a claim. In the science community that is called handwaving. I have done the math, and your temp gradient idea is false, it does not explain my diode array. Do you have another explanation?

PL

I have a solar calculator that works indoors.  Can your device produce enough power to run a calculator?  Show us a practical application, and someone might take notice.  I cannot understand why you won't do this.

You say you can theoretically produce 4100 watts over a square meter, well, what's stopping you?  If you can get access to $100K from friendly investors, why don't you get it and make this happen?

And I think you have it backwards.  Of course no scientist has done the math to disprove your theory.  No scientist cares.  Even on this board, where you would get the most sympathy, I am the only one engaging you in any serious discussion, and I am a skeptic.  Show a practical application, and someone might take you seriously.

There have been thousands before you at the stage you are now, thinking they have something but then unable to make anything useful out of it.  So it's hard to get excited.  Make your device run a simple calculator, then a cell phone, then a computer, then a desklamp, and you will have the whole world talking.