Thermoelectric ™ / Thermovoltaic ™ Power Generation - From Metals and their Carbide Alloys

Benefits of Coherence and Decoherence of Metal in Thermovoltaic Power Generation

Coherent Metal

Coherent metal is

• Unstretched metal - i.e. non-malleated and non-ducted metal

• Slowly cooled metal - generally cooled in a higher temperature atmosphere, just above the molten metal temperature and very low pressure (partial vacuum - or under reverse air compressor influence). This is known as Warm-Forming.

• To achieve warm-forming efficiently, first apply as much reverse air pressure at higher temperature than the molten metal as possible. That will prevent a solid surface from forming too early while extracting bubbles of volatile gases, vapours and ablating solids.

• More thermovoltaically conductive than decoherent metal. That implies that the conductivity of heat and of electric flux are confluent.

• Lower in carbon alloy than decoherent metals. Once the chemical threshold of carbon lattice ratio has passed from 4+ valency to 4-, it shifts from behaving as a metal to behaving as a dielectric.

  
  

Decoherent Metal

Decoherent metal is the alternatively describe metal configuration. That includes molten metal being deliberately, micro-partitioned, at the lattice level, via the inclusion of near-dielectric levels of carbon. Once dielectric levels are achieved, geometric lattice integrity lowers to amorphous lattice of a covalent compound. That is when too much carbon has been added.

A thermocouple is a pair of metals - one coherent and the other decoherent, and connected by a coherent conductor or standard or quantum induction. They form the basis of thermoelectric power generation when in the presence of heat.

Hydrotower

The entire circuit will always be at a heat differential to the exterior environment. It is the heat differential which generates electric flux. Concrete masses or large concrete block with shallow (1:4 height to diameter) air-seawater, vapour pressure chambers with copper carbide insulation on thinner walls. The outer walls are immediately of thermal polystyrene and reinforced concrete outer pylons to follow. Seawater would be tap water with sea salt added to it to achieve lower liquid heat inertia than the original water.

Attractive modular towers could facilitate that function - sectioned with chamber module on chamber module. Appropriate use of black anodised surfacing, for high rate of infra red and alternative spectrum absorption. Ground level, unshaded concrete in stabilised rubble, as insulation, will maximise the disablement of heat loss. Blackened, hydrogen peroxide anodised, copper carbide vanes with iron carbide looms extending from the concrete pylon would absorb heat by day and conduct it into the pressure chambers, with carbonic (high carbon) copper carbide, pressure volume, bed surfaces.

The reverse thermal flow would occur by evening, or when Brownian motion (pressure) peaks at various daytime intervals. That will affect the temperature differential necessary to achieve the optimum thermovoltaic power generation. The thermovoltaic coupling will produce the electric power flow, as heat transfers from the interior, back to the exterior. The chamber would rely on a chicken wire-like copper carbide mesh filling the pressure chamber as the alternative thermocouple metal, possibly with the metal insulation of the same material.

Under very high pressure the low depth sea water will form a rapid steam volume, under scaled thermo-flask-like conditions. Only the heat will be absorbed for power, not the steam pressure, for locomotion. An array of proportionately larger and heavily sprung horizontal safety pistons should be built in to extend chamber pressure as it mounts. Place only one in each upper chamber, in flat, radial configuration. Eliminate vapour loss by not exceeding one piston per chamber.

The exterior vanes should be comprised of rectangular length leaves of the anodised copper carbide. They should progressively increase in length, from the top to the base and each level should be rotated by the pi radians divided by the total number of levels - both factors for maximum solar exposure. There must be an optimum upper and lower height's length for the vanes. There would be a sliding scale of length change in either vertical direction, accordingly.

The polymer, insulated, twin, support looms should all be the same length at the horizontal extension from the tower. The rest of the insulated, twin looms beneath the vanes with be of the same length of the vanes which will be suspended at pi/4 rad from the lower vertical drop of the tower, for greatest solar exposure. (Wind sheer must be considered in entire design. In some regions wind storm cells must also be considered, such as hurricanes and cyclones when planning location.)

The Thermoelectric Effect

The charge carrier field will build in capacitance from higher electric field presence to the lower presence - from more decoherent (electric hole carrier rich) side to the electric charge carrier side when the exterior is at a higher temperature. The charge field rich area will reflect photons more easily than the hole field area which will accept photons and convert them to the electric field more than the alternative area. The reverse will occur for lower environmental temperature.

For greatest thermovoltaic effect the decoherent metal must be as thinly distributed as possible - i.e with the highest surface area to volume or diameter ratio and a greater material length. The coherent portion must have the highest possible diameter to length ratio of the material.

Bernoulli Chamber

Placing either side of the thermocouple in two independent sets of closed environments where each can open to the environmental temperature while leaving the other enclosed, and vice versa, for temperature differential switches or heat ratio inversions. Double opening and closing well insulated vents is the best methodology to achieve this.

Powerful convection requires an upper and well separated lower vent for maximum, natural Bernoulli air flow. Rabbit warrens exist and thrive on that air flow dynamic. The coherent side would always be exposed to higher temperature environment, and vice versa. That indoor or outdoor exposure may alter given atmospheric changes outside. A medium height or medium depth cylindrical silo would operate to maximum, practical efficacy.

*** As a pragmatic compromise on design, the lower temperature environment could be a decommissioned mine shaft network or an electrically interconnected series of large warehouses. Constantly water cooling that environment can maintain the colder temperature differential continuously. Evaporative cooling is probably the best and most water efficient methodology. ***

One already very coherent metal and one already very decoherent metal gains the best advantage. One pairing which I would suggest respectively, is coherent copper and carbonic (high carbon ratio) iron carbide.

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