--- Charlie, At the risk of offending more readers here with excessive speculation, let me mention that the Stiffler circuit mentioned in recent threads, could be very similar to your and Paul's concept- but in a number of inadvertent ways. That is, similar to what you are attempting except that the output is found in visible light radiation, rather than electricity.
He is mixing LEDs, which are of course a type of diode, with signal diodes together with a reactive transformer core- along with input from a small external signal (~50 or more milliwatts) to get more light out, in photons, than the input power would suggest is possible. Among many possible explanations for this is that ambient infrared and terahertz radiation (ambient heat) is being converted (upshifted) into the visible range of photons by the negative resistance range of the LEDs. Did this possibility occur to you already, or am I too far removed from reality to realize how 'excessive' such a suggestion can seem? Jones > Vortex, > > Progress is being made on the diode array which is > intended to convert uniform temperature ambient heat > into > DC electrical power by a massive consistant > alignment > parallel group of diodes which aggregate rectified > Johnson noise ( 1 / 2 kTB times efficiency times > number of > diodes watts ). This results in refrigeration, an > absorbtion of thermal nergy, and an equivalent > release of > electrical power. Mr. Paul Lawrence has made an > extreamly > sensitive zero offset current voltmeter and will > soon take > a 32 parallel (first order) 32 series (rows)of 1N34A > > diodes to a radio quiet area of LA possibly with my > financial backer Gary Schultz to see if there is any > > output. Mr. Tom Schum, an electronics expert in > Virginia > has tested this array under well shielded conditions > and > found near micro volt into 1 meg output. A few > people are > considering using SMS7621 sensitive surface mount > Schottky > diodes. which are expected to work a lot better than > the > 1N34A s. The SMS7621 s cost ~ 80 cents for dual > diode > packages in various configurations. The unconnected > pair > package has two cathode leads on one side and two > anode > leads on the other side. This allows buss wire to be > > forked in and soldered. The dual diodes are ~ 1 /20 > x 1 / > 20 x 1 / 14 inches. There is also a comon cathode > package > which fits on a 3 layer Printed Circuit Board and > can not > be misoriented. I have just paid for work to proceed > at > the MEMS and nanotechnology Exchange in Virginia to > put > surface metalization on a Au / GaAs open face diode > array > of ~10,000 diodes ordinarily accessed with a metal > whisker. I would like verification by other > experimenters. > > Aloha, > Charlie > Kilauea, Kauai, HI > >
