Comments on: New Nanoparticle Alloys Allow Heat To Be Manipulated As If It Were Light, Applications In Thermoelectrics And Energy Efficiency http://cleantechnica.com/2013/01/14/new-nanoparticle-alloys-allow-heat-to-be-manipulated-as-if-it-were-light-applications-in-thermoelectrics-and-energy-efficiency/ Clean Tech News & Views: Solar Energy News. Wind Energy News. EV News. & More. Mon, 29 Dec 2014 00:43:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.1 By: Innovative Peel-&-Stick Thin-Film Solar Cells Developed | CleanTechnica http://cleantechnica.com/2013/01/14/new-nanoparticle-alloys-allow-heat-to-be-manipulated-as-if-it-were-light-applications-in-thermoelectrics-and-energy-efficiency/#comment-157928 Wed, 10 Apr 2013 23:10:37 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=47154#comment-157928 […] for Energy Conversion Lab. His research interests are solar cells, energy conversion devices using nanomaterials, flexible electronics, nanoelectronics, and nanosensors. Among Kim’s recent publications are […]

]]> By: Peel-and-Stick Thin Film Solar Cells − http://cleantechnica.com/2013/01/14/new-nanoparticle-alloys-allow-heat-to-be-manipulated-as-if-it-were-light-applications-in-thermoelectrics-and-energy-efficiency/#comment-157926 Wed, 10 Apr 2013 23:06:44 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=47154#comment-157926 […] for Energy Conversion Lab. His research interests are solar cells, energy conversion devices using nanomaterials, flexible electronics, nanoelectronics, and nanosensors. Among Kim’s recent publications are […]

]]> By: sola http://cleantechnica.com/2013/01/14/new-nanoparticle-alloys-allow-heat-to-be-manipulated-as-if-it-were-light-applications-in-thermoelectrics-and-energy-efficiency/#comment-147027 Mon, 14 Jan 2013 18:42:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=47154#comment-147027 I hope someone can create some very efficient, cheap & low-temperature thermoelectric material using these discoveries.

Collecting heat with solar collectors is much-much cheaper /W than using PV panels to collect electricity. Moreover, the left-over heat is easy to recycle.

Solar heat collectors can be 70% efficient at lower temperature diffs which is 4-5 as much energy as with PV panels (15% average).

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