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Ultrasonic heat engine

Harmonic waves change heat to energy
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With a small amount of energy, induce ions into ultrasonic tremor. Introducing heat, it will be converted into patterned movement (or at least much of it will) turning heat into energy. With a coil in the vicinity this could be converted to electricity.
pashute, Apr 20 2012

and then there is this... http://www.bbc.co.u...k-scotland-17770739
[4whom, Apr 20 2012]

well, well, quantum well. http://www.newscien...uters-scale-up.html
not for producing power, but interesting [4whom, Apr 22 2012]


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       What's the frequency Kenneth?
4whom, Apr 20 2012
  

       What?   

       So, as far as I can make out, the idea is to heat up ions (random movement), and then superimpose an ultrasonic back-and-forth vibration on them. Then use the movement of the ions to generate electricity.   

       This makes no sense. The heating will have no net effect on the motion of the ions (ie, it will just add a random component to their movement). And any energy (presumably electrical) which you can "harvest" from the relative motion of the coil and the ions will necessarily be less than whatever energy you put in as "ultrasonic tremor".
MaxwellBuchanan, Apr 20 2012
  

       Let us count the ways in which this will not work...
Alterother, Apr 20 2012
  

       That would be rather like counting the ways in which a transitive verb will not catch fire.
MaxwellBuchanan, Apr 20 2012
  

       You know me... I take that sort of statement as a challenge.
Alterother, Apr 20 2012
  

       Let's see:
1.Heat is not patterned movement. Heat is random movement.
2. There are positive and negative ions, adding up to no charge.
3. What <MB> said.
4. Assuming the ion mix you're talking about is liquid water, the frequency with the highest absorbence is infrared light (about 3400cm-1) or 63.2 gigahertz . Building a rectifier to use power at that frequency would be difficult.
5. No cats
6. Reminded me of "The Core" (movie)
sninctown, Apr 21 2012
  

       #6 alone is grounds for summary execution.
Alterother, Apr 21 2012
  


 

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