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I am searching my files as we write looking for Peltier tables of
output. If sheets of bonded junctions would be made, this approach has
10X energy output over the photovoltaic approach per square ft. of
space. Uses only temp differential from the ambient environment.
On 7/8/2018 2:54 AM, Warren Keillor [email protected]
[EVGRAY] wrote:
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> Norman
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> You have written the best essay on this subject I have ever read.
> What an interesting concept, well researched.
> By carefully stating the subject, you also leave the door open to
> further research on a collective basis, for a group effort to build
> practical applications.
> This paper deserves recognition in a serious scientific journal.
> Cheers Warren
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> On Sat, 7 Jul 2018 at 8:56 PM, Norman Wootan [email protected] [EVGRAY]
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> Try this one:
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> What is Heat #3
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> For about 10 years I have been studying the effects of
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> heating and cooling associated with the phase change of
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> liquids with the hope of building a simple generator of
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> electrical power around the phenomenon.The reason for this
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> interest is based on the theory that energy can be extracted
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> from the ambient background via thermal differentials.My
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> line of thinking really took off back when I experimented
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> with the all too familiar Peltier junction devices found in
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> electronic cooling devices.Would you believe that most
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> people do not understand how these devices move thermal
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> energy through a current flow across a semiconductor
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> junction.Historically we find that German physicist,
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> Thomas Seebeck back in 1820 observed that when heat was
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> applied to a junction of copper and steel wire that
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> electrical energy resulted.Later in 1834 Jean Peltier
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> discovered that when a direct current was applied to two
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> Dissimilar metals the junction got hot or cold.It was not
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> Until 1838 that Emil Lenz clearly showed the importance of
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> Both Seebeck and Peltier s discoveries by placing a drop of
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> Water on the junction of dissimilar metals which froze then
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> Melted when the polarity of the direct current was
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> Reversed.These discoveries remained dormant for over 100
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> Years because of the unavailability of semiconductor
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> Materials which could provide the wide temperature
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> Differentials.In the 1930 s semiconductor materials became
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> Available which revived the electric cooling principles.In
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> The 1960 s many companies began building spot cooling
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> Devices and refrigerators based on these effects using a
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> Junction material of bismuth-telluride. Today more advanced
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> Materials are used with the basic parameters of being a pore
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> Thermal conductor but being an excellent electrical
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> Conductor. The dissimilar materials must provide a high
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> Coefficient of voltage temperature relationship.The first
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> Peltier devices that I experimented with back about 10 years
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> ago were built by Marlow Industries here in Dallas.With a
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> small temperature differential across the device a weak
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> current with an attendant voltage was developed.Increasing
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> the differential provided a proportional increase in current
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> and voltage.About 6 years ago I posted a chart of the
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> wattage generated from two different size Peltier chips on
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> the Keely Net BBS.My curiosity was based on the puzzle of
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> how electron flow could move thermal energy across the
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> junctions and how electrical energy was produced by moving
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> thermal energy across the junction.This is a directly
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> reversible situation based on polarity.
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> Now let us look at a very familiar parallel process used in
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> refrigeration, cooling and heating devices employing phase
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> change material such as water and refrigerants.We have
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> always been led to believe that evaporating water provided
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> cooling effects which is a mechanical process. By the same
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> mechanical process we are provided heating effects by the
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> condensation of a gas back to a liquid phase change.Would
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> you believe that any material that undergoes a phase change
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> provides an attendant electrical effect.Back in 1840
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> Armstrong invented an electrostatic generator based on
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> escaping steam through insulated nozzles which provided one
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> of the most powerful devices of this type ever built.
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> Popular belief was that this was a frictional process with
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> the electrical output resulting from the steam friction
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> passing through the nozzles.After reading an old (1920 s)
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> Thermodynamics in Chemistry text book I realized that the
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> phase change of materials was an electrical phenomenon and
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> not purely mechanical.The atoms of the material lose or
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> gain electrons in the process which accounts for the
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> discrepancy in the energy equation when a material
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> transitions between phases.More energy is present after
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> the phase change back to the lower form or atomic state. The
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> text book stated that this phenomenon could not be
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> explained.When Jerry and I attended a Conference hosted by
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> Hal Puthoff down in Austin back about 6 years ago a
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> Physicist from Austria presented a paper on the phase change
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> of water and the attendant electrical phenomenon which is
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> totally not understood by modern science.Now my suspicions
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> were confirmed that phase changes of materials are an
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> electrostatic phenomenon, which leads us to the fundamental
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> question of,What is heat?We were told in theschool
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> that heat is the presence of energy and cool is the absence
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> of energy.What is the form of this energy?Let us look at
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> a very simple example of heating which may explain this
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> process.When sunlight strikes an absorbing surface it is
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> heated because electrons in the material are converted to
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> photons which are emitted in the infrared band of light
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> leaving the material in a net positive state or hot.The
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> more electrons a material loses the hotter it becomes.Now
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> the inverse situation is explored by evaporating some water
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> from the surface of a material which leaves the surface in a
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> net negative state or cold.Heat or cold is based on the
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> ion relationship in the material.When we apply a flame
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> (ionizing) to a material we cause the emission of photons
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> which is basically stripping away electrons from the atomic
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> structure causing a gross net positive situation to occur.
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> Now we are getting a picture as to how an electric current
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> across the Peltier junction can transport thermal energy
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> (ions).Since the energy is in the form of presence or
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> absence of electrons then it is a simple explanation as to
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> how the process works.All phase change processes work the
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> same way basically via ion transport and are not mechanical
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> processes which we were taught.Everythingin chemistry is
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> an electrical or electrostatic process at the atomic level
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> based on the ionized state of the atoms involved.
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> At a Vanguard Science Roundtable discussion several years ago
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> we talked about the ion wind method of fire fighting in
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> which ionized air will extinguish a flame because of the
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> cooling effects.Now we see Patents issued based on
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> negative ion spraying of a surface causing it to rapidly
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> cool because it becomes net negative charged.This is a
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> very efficient method of air-conditioning because an ion
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> generator operates at very high voltages with very little
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> current involved.It is possible to develop this ion
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> transport (thermal energy) to provide direct electrical
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> output from very subtle temperature differentials.Remember
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> that this is a direct reversible process where a thermal
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> differential will cause a development of current and voltage
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> as in the Peltier device.I hope that this dialog will
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> provide some food for thought out there on the Keely Net.
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> Please provide some feedback on this very interesting line
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> of experimentation.Norm
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> On 7/7/2018 5:38 PM, [email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]> [EVGRAY] wrote:
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>> Norm,
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>> Part of your heat treatise was evaporated by yahoo, feel free to
>> send to my email, very interesting topic that bummed me out when
>> I hit "Would" and nothing further!
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>> In respect to my wireless energy experiment I have found PNP to
>> be superior to NPN, maybe they shut off faster being always on or
>> maybe the end result is more hole ish.
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