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I haven't been able to prove it's impossible?
It's a material that converts ambient thermal energy into electrical energy and cools the air as it does it.
It would produce an electrical current and a stream of cold air as the air is blown through a stack of thin sheets of the material.
The material is a collection of molecular machines made primarily of carbon and a conducting metal, all bound in a matrix of carbon and a conducting metal. The machines each produce a tiny electrical impulse upon a collision with a molecule in the air. A small amount of the kinetic energy in the air molecule is lost in the collision. Each sheet contains a million billion trillion molecular machines.
The sheets are stacked in a wind tunnel that air is blown through. The exhaust is a large volume of extremely cold air and a large amount of electricity is produced.
As far as I know, it doesn't violate any laws of physics even though it's operation seems to be counter intuitive.
Anyone want to help prove this is impossible?
Entropy is a phenomenon that happens on a macro scale because there are infinitely more arrangements of disorder than there are of order. But if you build a machine small enough, doesn't the disorder of the random bouncing air molecules that is heat, actually become order of kinetic energy? If you look at a single molecular machine and a single molecule of N2, it's a simple transfer of kinetic energy into electricity. Why wouldn't it hold up when it's a collection of a million billion trillion of them?
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- 10 years ago
I guess it is possible, if you mean the thermal energy with the air molecules is lost in the process of elastic(?) collision and is converted into electrical energy, while the air has lost it's heat. There is complete transfer of heat energy to the molecules which convert it into electrical energy. But sorry if my answer is wrong, cuz I couldn't understand your question properly. It would be helpful if you put it in a better understandable way.
Perhaps, giving the name of the material could help?
- Sergio__Lv 710 years ago
Your idea sounds like the concept of the Sterling Engine, but at the material level.
While that sounds possible, I'm pretty sure that developing such material would require tons of research, having a PhD in materials science or physics and lots of spare money.
My question from the engineering point of view, would your material be able to produce more energy than the energy consumed by the stream of cold air to even make researching for such machine profitable?
- TechnobuffLv 710 years ago
If this is meant to generate power in excess of the power required to drive the air through it, it is of course impossible.
Nothing is for nothing, perpetual motion does not exist. More power would need to be put into this than it could possibly produce.
There must be losses.
