Understanding Thermodynamic Theory of Computing

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I'm trying to release free-to-the-world plausible hope that civilization can quit the second law of thermodynamics. The second law is behind people needing to feed electrical energy to modern refrigerators which then need to dump as waste heat energy they don't fundamentally need in the first place which is the compresser driving energy and mechanical losses to heat. The heat that refrigerators have removed from their service interior  is also dumped as waste heat.

It makes a lot more sense that refrigerators should yield electricity because energy is widely known to change form with no ultimate path of energy gain or loss being found. Therefore any form of fully recycled energy can be cycled endlessly in any quantity.

Full heat recycling all electric very isolated underground commuunities would be highly survivable with farms, factories, dwellings, and self contained elevators and linear transports.

If a high majority thinks our civilization should geoengineer gigatons or
teratons of carbon dioxide out of our etnvironment, instalations using devices that convert ambient heat into electricity can hypothetically be scaled up do it with a choice of comsequences including many beneficial ones.

Computers that consume electricity and yield heat would complement energy sensible refrigerators that absorb heat and yield electricity. 

A simple rectifier crystal can, iust short of a replicatable long term demonstration of a powerful prototype, almost certainly filter the random thermal motion of electrons or discrete positiive charged voids called holes so the electric current flowing in one direction predominates. At low system voltage a filtrate of one polarity predominates only a little but there is always usable electrical power derived from the source, which is Johnson Nyquest thermal electrical noise. This net electrical filtrate can be aggregated in a group of separate diodes in consistent alignment parallel creating widely scalable electrical power. As the polarity filtered electrical energy is exported, the amount of thermal energy in the group of diodes decreases. This group cooling will draw heat in from the surrounding ambient heat at a rate depending on the filtering rate and thermal resistance between the group and ambient gas, liquid, or solid warmer than absolute zero. There is a lot of ambient heat on our planet, more in equatorial dry desert summer days and less in polar desert winter nights.

Refrigeration by the principle that energy is conserved should produce electricity instead of consuming it.

Focusing on explaining the electronic behavior of one composition of simple diode, a near flawless crystal of silicon is modified by implanting a small amount of phosphorus on one side from a ohmic contact end to a junction where the additive is suddenly and completely changed to boron with minimal disturbance of the crystal pattern. The crystal then continues to another ohmic contact.

A region of high electrical resistance forms at the junction in this type of diode when the phosphorous near the ĵunction donates electrons that are free to move elsewhere while leaving phosphorus ions held in the crystal while the boron donates a hole which is similalarly free to move. The two types of mobile charges mutually clear each other away near the junction leaving little electrical conductivity. An equlibrium width of this region is settled between the phosphorus, boron, electrons, and holes. Thermal noise is beyond steady state equlibrium. Thermal noise transients where mobile electrons move from the phosphorus added side to the boron added side ride transient extra conductivity so the forward moving  electrons are preferentally filtered into the external circuit. Electrons are units of electric current. They lose their thermal energy of motion and gain electromotive force, another name for voltage, as they transition between the junction and the array electrical tap. Inside the diode, heat is absorbed: outside the diode, an attached electrical circuit is energized. The net energy in diodes connected in consistent alignment parallel is aggregated. The maximum energy is converted from ambient heat to productive electricity when the electrical load is matched to the array impeadence.

Matched impeadence output (watts) is k (Boltzman's constant ~1.38^-23), times T  (tempeature Kelvin) times bandwidth (0 Hz to a natural limit ~2 THz @ 290 K) times rectification efficiency times the number of diodes in the array.

For reference, there are a billion cells of 1000 square nanometer area each per square millimeter, 100 billion per square centimeter.


Order is imposed on the random thermal motion of electrons by the structual orderlyness of a diode array made of diodes made within a slab:

v v v v v v v v v v v v v v v v v


All the boron doped anodes abut a metal conductive plane deposited on the top face of the slab with nonrectifying joins; all the phosphorous doped cathodes abut the bottom face.

Understanding boron and phosphorus modified silicon crystal diodes is one way to become convinced that Johnson Nyquest thermal electrical noise can be rectified and aggregated. Development teams will find other ways to accomplish this wide mission. Taxonomically there should be many ways ways to convert heat directly into electricity.

Anyone is free to develop this and other plausible breeches of the second law of thermodynamics. I hope a lot of previously uninvolved people will join in expanding the breech. Please share the news of progress or setbacks.

These devices would probably become segmented commodities sold with minimal margin over supply cost. They would be manufactured by advanced automation that does not need financial incentive. Applicable best practices would be adopted. Business details would be open public knowledge. Associated people should move as negotiated and freely and honestly talk. Commerce would be a unified conglomerate of planetary scale of diverse local cooperatives. There is no need of wealth extracting top commanders. We do not need often token philanthropy from the top if the wide majority of people can afford to be generous.

Aloha
Charles M Brown
Kilauea Kauai Hawaii 96754😊