Razor, you cannot just ignore those shorts sent here by the evil MM's. You got to stand on the breach and paint them for what they are, either the most evil, dark hearted, self serving with hidden motives S^&*(%H they are, or geniuses of the first grade. Do you know how much a unidirectional wire can fetch on the intellectual property market? By jove, such an invention would be more important than lossless wires at room temperature. This is the universal diode, the wire that will convert any lousy ac power that come into you house with all the associated problems of ELF and convert it on the spot to DC (well, at least partially). With a wire like that you can protect houses from lightning (just make sure you know ahead of time the lightning's polarity), because such a wire is unidirectional, it by necessity must have a conductivity half that of copper (it conducts only in one direction so more electron can be harnessed to move in the desired direction), if you remember IBM spent $200 MM to get damascene copper for chips, just reduce resistance by a factor of less than two (aluminum the old king of interconnects has slightly less than twice the resistance of copper), guess what IBM would pay for another factor of 2.
I could continue and sing the glories of the unidirectional conductor and its application in thermodynamic devices (of course, if you follow the DuLong law, it will have to have asymetric thermal conductivity to match the asymetric electrical conductivity), you now the applications that material will have in airconditioning and refrigeration? Come on, either the guy is a paid shorter or he is entitled to the next Noble prize.
In ant event, we must engage him, politely, but engage nevertheless.
Zeev |
