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Remember the inventor of the Super Soaker, Dr. Lonnie Johnson? This is what he’s up to now!
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Can I just say how refreshing it is to see a story like this where somebody is investing in energy and not something scandalous.
Did he say hydrogen atoms have two electrons? They only have one naturally. A pair of hydrogen atoms, as a molecule have one each, but it’s the smallest atom, how is a membrane small enough for a hydrogen molecule?
He also has a reddit account! /u/Iinex
He showed up last time a post about him got to r/all too!
This tech will put the Rockwell Retro Encabulator out of business!
Powered by a cup of McDonald’s coffee..
so it requires heat energy and compression energy to produce electric energy? is the output more than the input? seems like the act of stripping electrons, only to be re-paired afterward would see a net 0 gain? reminds me of perpetual motion machine
No why would I remember him?
At what temperatures does it work? The image shows 190C as the temperature on the high side. That’s a much higher temperature than a lot of the easily obtainable heat (e.g from solar)
Shout out to the Super Soaker 50. Greatest water gun of all time.
I want to believe. I really do but Youtube is full of: “This new idea/invention will solve our energy problems”… and none of them ever come to market. I wish we will soon solve the endless clean energy problem.
I’m curious what amount of heat generates what current? Like can we harvest the waste heat from water that’s normally expelled through cooling towers?
I’m also curious how fast it can absorb the neat. like could i put one on my CPU and get cooling and power from it?
Love how they don’t reveal any numbers, like hey – the JTEC creates green renewable energy **from simple waste heat**, but the cost is going to be at least 5x of generating electricity from the next cheapest renewable energy source (solar? wind? hydro?).
Ok, great. So it works! It’s just not practical. Sometimes the theoretical maximum efficiency isn’t good enough.
A real world example of similar technology that more than **DOUBLES** solar efficiency (~22% -> [45-50%](https://commercialsolarguy.com/50-efficient-solar-cell/)) simply isn’t practical (either fragile, too hard to mass manufacture, or too expensive). And that technology was created at least 7 years ago.
What are the musical applications?
So it’ll make my SuperSoaker shoot farther..?
Greatest Black inventer.
This just sounds like a Peltier with a hydrogen medium for heat transfer…