Circuit that generates clean, limitless electricity from Brownian motion

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    I also don't understand the argument of the article completely but i will look into the equations behind this magic. Because that it is exactly what you'd expect to happen. My only explanation for this is that the entropy in this whole closed systems gets balanced over time again through interaction with outside effects which implies it ain't that easily scalable as the author supposes.

    I already sent it to an old friend of mine that is more into solid state physics. When i get an answer, i'll write it here as an edit.

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    Maybe this one works in a lab but i cannot imagine to be it scalable to a real use-case because graphene is very expensive.

    And i suppose the circuits would interfere with each other when scaling it.

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    Yeah. This looks to me like the physics analog to the medical "If I had a dime for every cure that works in mice..." Cool work, but I don't see how they scale this up.