On Nov 8, 2007, at 6:52 AM, Charles M. Brown wrote:
I just emailed Xinyong Fu about the static hall device. He built a
2LoT escaping device usiing two low work function electrodes and a
magnetic field where cycloid electron movement would allow ambient
heat driven electrons to move one way.
http://arxiv.org/ftp/physics/papers/0311/0311104.pdf nov 2003
http://arxiv.org/ftp/physics/papers/0509/0509111.pdf sept 2005
These approaches have the apparent disadvantage that there is little
prospect of a closed loop operation, that is to say providing useful
energy without a supply other than ambient heat.
Horace Heffner
http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/