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On 3/19/99 Matthew Goff wrote :
Hey all,
I was reading a fairly recent Scientific American, (Feb or Mar '99) and
came across a fairly interesting blurb on nanotech.
Basically, the gist of the thing was that there are researchers that are
working on what are being called "Brownian motion motors". The main =
concept is that a wheel and ratchet assembly are constructed on the =
molecular level, such that random impact will turn the wheel (gear) and =
the ratchet will only let it turn one way.
Unfortunately, the researchers have not had any staggering success, but =
this line of inquiry seems to point to the possibility of machines
(albeit small ones) that would require no traditional power source in
order to operate in non-frozen enviornments.
Although I realize that using ambient, chaotic heat and motion is not
really true overunity, given that the establishment at large seems to
think that this "degenerated" energy is useless, I think that this is
fairly cool.
On 3/19/99 at 10:13 AM Jerry Decker wrote :
>Now we need to find the URL for that SCIAM article...<g>...
The URL is :
http://www.sciam.com/1999/0299issue/0299scicit1.html
Regards,
BillP
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