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Physicists build circuit that generates clean, limitless power from graphene
The Brighter Side ^ | 19 February 2022 | Bob Whitby

Posted on 02/21/2022 11:11:46 AM PST by ShadowAce

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To: Kevmo

This strikes me as a step away from your favorite subject.


41 posted on 02/21/2022 12:48:47 PM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Kevmo

I should have looked, you’re already here!


42 posted on 02/21/2022 12:50:14 PM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: rktman
So, good news for the vaxxed then?

Maybe not. Sounds like the premise of The Matrix; they’re all batteries now.

43 posted on 02/21/2022 1:15:05 PM PST by noiseman (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.)
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To: JD_UTDallas

can these devices be scaled up to refrigerator or truck or house size?


44 posted on 02/21/2022 1:18:51 PM PST by ckilmer
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To: JD_UTDallas

Thanks for describing this well. My level of knowledge couldn’t concisely do that.


45 posted on 02/21/2022 1:26:02 PM PST by Hootowl99
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To: ShadowAce

Everybody seems fixated on the word “limitless”. I get it.
HOWEVER, it seems to me that the far more important aspect is the the fact that, if true, they have refuted the belief that the thermal motion of atoms cannot do work. That’s a huge shift in what may be possible. If I was on that team, I’d be doing back flips.


46 posted on 02/21/2022 1:34:42 PM PST by Lee'sGhost ("Just look at the flowers, Lizzie. Just look at the flowers.")
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To: ShadowAce; Amendment10; Bellflower; BudgieRamone; ckilmer; DoughtyOne; EEGator; GOPJ; grwcfl537; ...

This is the graphene ping list.

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Interesting: 10 Uses for Graphene.

47 posted on 02/21/2022 2:33:44 PM PST by upchuck (The longer I remain unjabbed with the clot-shot, the more evidence I see supporting my decision.)
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To: ShadowAce

BUMP


48 posted on 02/21/2022 2:44:19 PM PST by Rumplemeyer (The GOP should stand its ground - and fix Bayonets)
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To: Born to Conserve
The energy has to be coming from something other than the random thermal motions. This probably amounts to a microscopic version of those old watches that you wind by shaking them.

That’s what I suspect, for instance ambient sound (phonon) energy. ( perhaps from nearby bullhorns announcing preposterous claims of repealing thermodynamics). They say in the blurb graphene mysteriously converts thermal noise to usable frequency vibrations but it more just resonates to sound wave inputs, folks.

49 posted on 02/21/2022 4:44:59 PM PST by takebackaustin
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To: ShadowAce

“Graphene is a zero-gap semiconductor, because its conduction and valence bands meet at the Dirac points. The Dirac points are six locations in momentum space, on the edge of the Brillouin zone, divided into two non-equivalent sets of three points. The two sets are labeled K and K’. The sets give graphene a valley degeneracy of gv = 2. By contrast, for traditional semiconductors the primary point of interest is generally Γ, where momentum is zero.”


50 posted on 02/21/2022 5:03:29 PM PST by HandyDandy (Life is what you make it.)
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To: JD_UTDallas; Publius; Billthedrill

Paging Mr. Galt. Mr. John Galt please pick up the white courtesy phone.....


51 posted on 02/23/2022 9:58:50 PM PST by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: 4Liberty; ADemocratNoMore; Aggie Mama; alarm rider; alexander_busek; AlligatorEyes; antceecee; ...

Ping to John Galt’s motor, stashed at the abandoned ruin of the Twentieth Century Motor Company in Starnesville, Wisconsin.


52 posted on 02/24/2022 11:17:52 AM PST by Publius
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To: Yo-Yo

“Dated” has grown into being the most laughable euphemism around in the last several years.Two guys watching a buxom babe walk by, one turns to the other and says “I want to DATE her SO BAD!”


53 posted on 04/28/2022 5:17:20 PM PDT by supremedoctrine
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To: Yo-Yo

“Dated” has grown into being the most laughable euphemism around in the last several years.Two guys watching a buxom babe walk by, one turns to the other and says “I want to DATE her SO BAD!”


54 posted on 04/28/2022 5:17:34 PM PDT by supremedoctrine
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To: Yo-Yo

“Dated” has grown into being the most laughable euphemism around in the last several years.Two guys watching a buxom babe walk by, one turns to the other and says “I want to DATE her SO BAD!”


55 posted on 04/28/2022 5:20:40 PM PDT by supremedoctrine
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To: Yo-Yo

“Dated” has grown into being the most laughable euphemism around in the last several years.Two guys watching a buxom babe walk by, one turns to the other and says “I want to DATE her SO BAD!”


56 posted on 04/28/2022 5:20:50 PM PDT by supremedoctrine
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