Text: "Power conversion of energy fluctuations." Analysis of the theoretical efficiency of converting the nonlinear equilibrium thermal fluctuations of a system to a useful form of energy. Complete thermal disorder, if full-wave rectified, becomes ordered. If the nonlinear noise fluctuations of diodes could so be rectified, enormous power can be shown to result. A physical shape such as inside a tube or container can be utilized to bias the statistics of fluctuations, including fluctuations of the vacuum itself. A stressed, multiparticle transistor containing germanium can conceivably be used to cause myriads of internal stress cracks or dislocations, resulting in great number of tiny scalar interferometers interacting with the biased fluctuation statistics. If sufficient integration occurs in this system, it becomes a self-organizing "Prigogine transistor" and collects virtual fluctuation energy into usable macroscopic energy. This is how T. Henry Moray's valve worked. Adaptations of this could possibly be utilized in Yater's work. Physical Review A. General Physics. 10(4), Oct. 1974. p. 1361-1369.

See Also: fluctuation theory, free energy, thermal fluctuations, electrodynamics, thermodynamics.

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