From: John Heritage (xebec@home.com)
Date: Fri Jul 10 1998 - 11:45:41 MDT
>If it's real and can taken literally, it should be of great interest.
>Most likely they've goofed, or the effect is much less general than they've
>described. If you put a negative R into the solutions of a standard RLC
>curcuit equation (which I'm staring at at the moment), you get exponential
>growth in current. So at the very least this effect must be valid only
>within a limited current range. And by P = I^2 R, this would seem to be
>an energy source, which could only work for a limited time.
Why would negative resistance have to INCREASE the energy?
Because if it "pulls" the energy to the other side, it's actually
increasing the
energy ? I wonder if the cable degrades over time, decreasing it's "negative
resistance" characteristic...?
John
[The Human Mind Is Capable Of Solving The Problem Of The Human Mind]
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.5 : Fri Nov 01 2002 - 14:49:19 MST