The Future Mind - A Conversation with Ida Cuéllar and Alex Gómez-Marin

A Conversation between Ida Cuéllar and Àlex Gómez-Marín
In 2024, Àlex will curate and host conversations to address The Future Mind, seeking to gain clarity and insight into important contemporary matters that require both urgent action as well as deep reflection.
Recorded May 30, 2024

[@flow963]

¡Yes! Great conversation. Mil gracias. Dos mil :)

[@psicoactivopodcast]

Amazing conversation!

[@CharlesBrown-xq5ug]

Another method to plausibly transform ambient heat into electricity with equivalent cooling essentally consists of two electrodes closely face to face (~1 micrometer) in a vacuum wired to an external electrical load. The face of the [Emitter] electrode is covered with a uniform array of LaB6 tipped small diameter carbon nanotubes grown straight out. The face of the [Absorber] electrode is covered with small scale graphine flake char. [Rice U 2014]
Thermal energy mobilized unattached electrons will tend to free themselves outward from the emitter tips and drift at ~1 million meters / second @ 25 millivolts (thermal electron energy @ 20 C) to the absorber which tends to collect them.
A negative charge accumulates on the absorber. This repels oncoming electrons slowing their forward drift, cooling them. The absorber electrode charge is simultaneously the repelling cooling and the external electrical load voltage. The drift current and external wire route current are the same. The DC electrical power consumed by the electrical load depends on the load resistance. Thermal energy absorption always equals the electrical yield.
Wire resistance is a practical loss not a true loss so lt is overcome by added device output. Extra cooling then balances the heat given off by the wire loss. The performance of the device is expected to be modest in the beginning but improve rapidly. Even early devices are expected to last a long time. There is little place for obsolence if the first installed device works adequately. They will withstand being short circuited indefinately up to an electromigration limit.

[@CharlesBrown-xq5ug]

I am a second law of thermodynamics denier. Thank you for outlining in passing that false creativity can be ego metastasis. However I really think that a deep paridgm of steam engine thermodynamics started in Victorian England which has trapped academia in spite of it solidly knowing that monoatomic gasses are in perpetuaI moton. There are also large corporations fearcely seeking Frankenstein creature economic power and immortality.
The last factor for mention here is social pessimism where many people say that if a proposisition sounds too good to be true it is indeed false. The new paridgm of unfettered lossless perpetuall energy conversion has not yet bloomed. Thank youersation for appreciating long form conversaetion. Here are my paste posted essays on the suɓject in top first reading order:

[@CharlesBrown-xq5ug]

A thought experment, an impractical device that is easy to check for mechanical workability. Its parts are large enough to act as everyday mechanisms but small enough to work well with the nanometer scale thermal motions of gas molecules. This device hypothetically creates self powered thermal diversification:
Sketch made with keyboard characters:
COLD ())--:PARTITION:-->> HOT
Key
()) = Paddlewheel.
-- = Axle. (Continuous from end to end)
: : = Axle tunnel going through a wall.
>> = Lumped friction element
Please visualize two chambers full of inert gas separated by a very thin partition. The partition is thin to delicately support billions of separate nanometer scale short axles running straight through loosely enough to rotate freely but not leak very much heat so the chambers can hold separate temperatures.
On the left side, a very small paddlewheel is mounted at the left end of each axle. On the right side, lumped friction elements are mounted stationary in place on the partition, one for each axle, for the right end of each axle to run through. The lumped friction elements convert the mechanical rotation of their axle into heat. The lumped friction elements do not impart Brownian motion to their axle.
Brownian motion (a nanometer scale effect) turns the paddlewheels at random speeds randomly clockwise or counterclockwise. This random rotation is turned into heat by the lumped friction elements.
The committed, linked, and functional roles of the walls, paddlewheels, axles, and lumped friction elements in differnt places should systemically produce a divergence in the thermal energy in the two chambers without adding external energy.
Aloha

[@Elements5025]

Imagination is assimilating, receiving, INTER- FORMING... Bringing forth what is not yet.