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This is Sony, so their electrical engineers clearly know what they are doing. But at the same time I can't understand how such a thing works using pure white n
by eig 3y ago
This is Sony, so their electrical engineers clearly know what they are doing.
But at the same time I can't understand how such a thing works using pure white noise. Feynman famously described (and disproved) a similar energy-harvesting device [0] except one that uses mechanical noise and a mechanical rectifier instead of the electrical noise and electrical rectifier of Sony. He showed that such a device will eventually stop working due to the second law of thermodynamics. Why doesn't that happen in the Sony chip?
[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brownian_ratchet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brownian_ratchet
- buescher 3y agoBecause RF energy harvesting depends on an external energy source - it’s the same reason a crystal radio or solar calculator can keep working as long as it’s illuminated.