Posted on 10/02/2020 7:09:57 AM PDT by Red Badger
“Everything is impossible until someone does it.” .... Robert Heinlein...................
I know there is outside energy involved (ambient heat) but this sounds too much like a perpetual motion machine.
“Perpetual Motion” is impossible.
“ALMOST Perpetual Motion” is possible.....................
Thibado’s team found that at room temperature the thermal motion of graphene does in fact induce an alternating current (AC) in a circuit, an achievement thought to be impossible.
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This is the atomic-level version of harnessing vacuum energy. Extremely cool if it’s really working.
Its also a question of scale. Like solar, wind, etc… they would find that you very quickly reach diminishing returns. They mentioned “low voltage.” Perhaps they can generate enough energy to keep a very sophisticated computer chip “on” at some greatly reduced state.
But what about moving a 3000 lb car down the road at 60 mph?
The left DOES NOT WANT 'clean, limitless power'!!!
They want you shut down and subject to their control.
Zero Population Growth etc.
https://www.amazon.com/Feynman-Lectures-Physics-boxed-set/dp/0465023827
“Don’t ever become a pessimist... a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can stop the march of events.”
RAH
What is the Frequency?
I didn’t see the usual
“Research continues, only a few billion more in funding is needed for a ‘commercial’ product.
I’m still waiting to get my hands on a fuel cell powered by NatGas to power/heat me home.
Huh? These units are all over Britain. I’d love to cut the cord...
Photosynthesis seems pretty crazy, too.
Clean, Limitless Power ?
Democrats will be against as the price of energy would be lower and they cannot turn off the power to your home as you will have your own generator powered by the graphene.
I am thinking this could open up a whole new area of bio-medical power supply. Interesting development.
At first I too thought of “Perpetual Motion” but then realized it was more a “Sterling Engine”/heat differential at the molecular level moving electrons rather than a mechanical work. Definitely on the AMAZING level, if true I’d see a Nobel Prize for Physics potential.
Sincerely hope it is not a Pons&Fleischmann “Cold Fusion” (1989) disappointment. NOTE: I say ‘disappointment’ as I think that they were sincere in their research, at least at the beginning. MHO.
There is no such thing as free lunch.
If this is true, it is the last time you will ever read about it.
The universe is awash in energy called zero point energy or dark energy or whatever that will soon be harvested.
New technology, when presented to the people seems like a magic.
It’s not ‘free’..................
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