Comments on: New Thermoelectric Material Created With “Caged” Atoms http://cleantechnica.com/2013/09/30/new-thermoelectric-material-created-caged-atoms/ Clean Tech News & Views: Solar Energy News. Wind Energy News. EV News. & More. Sun, 28 Dec 2014 08:17:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.1 By: Ken http://cleantechnica.com/2013/09/30/new-thermoelectric-material-created-caged-atoms/#comment-185071 Sat, 05 Oct 2013 06:53:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=57043#comment-185071 I’ve tried that method but I think it’s managed by “Important Media” and they didn’t relay the message. Why not just have an email address? Instead it’s like an advertisement to contact you?

]]> By: Ivor O'Connor http://cleantechnica.com/2013/09/30/new-thermoelectric-material-created-caged-atoms/#comment-184641 Wed, 02 Oct 2013 12:47:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=57043#comment-184641 I ran my cursor over the “About”, top left. Clicked on the “Contact Us” and saw “bona fide sustainability guru on the Paul Hawken, Vandana Shiva, or Joel Makower level” and now realize I have more people to follow… :)

]]> By: Ivor O'Connor http://cleantechnica.com/2013/09/30/new-thermoelectric-material-created-caged-atoms/#comment-184640 Wed, 02 Oct 2013 12:40:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=57043#comment-184640 Thanks Ken. It will be interesting to watch this progress. I will try to make an alert for this because it is so different.

]]> By: Bob_Wallace http://cleantechnica.com/2013/09/30/new-thermoelectric-material-created-caged-atoms/#comment-184600 Wed, 02 Oct 2013 06:20:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=57043#comment-184600 Run your cursor over “About”, top right. You’ll get a drop-down which includes “Contact Us”.

]]> By: Ken http://cleantechnica.com/2013/09/30/new-thermoelectric-material-created-caged-atoms/#comment-184597 Wed, 02 Oct 2013 06:12:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=57043#comment-184597 The concept is literally a direct heat to electron conversion system.

how it works:

1. They built a nano(tiny) crystal cage around a cerium atom and repeated the process to form a material made of these cages of cerium atoms.

2. They apply heat to the material.

3. the cage and the material in the cage react differently to the heat. The caged cerium wants to vibrate in it’s cage but can only reach a specific movement in vibration because of it’s confinement within the cage.

4. Energy has to go somewhere so per the Kondo effect the trapped atom must resort to releasing the excess energy as electrons into the cage. Hence the name thermo-electric generator.

Think of a solar panel converting light to electricity but instead, it converts heat directly to electricity.

Hope this makes sense.

Really like your work here at Cleantechnica. I can’t seem to find your contact info and would like to work with you on content. My site is http://www.Revolution-Green.com.

]]> By: Ivor O'Connor http://cleantechnica.com/2013/09/30/new-thermoelectric-material-created-caged-atoms/#comment-184458 Tue, 01 Oct 2013 16:47:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=57043#comment-184458 I’ll take your word for it. I wish they had a concluding paragraph stating possible uses for this though…

]]> By: Syros http://cleantechnica.com/2013/09/30/new-thermoelectric-material-created-caged-atoms/#comment-184456 Tue, 01 Oct 2013 16:43:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=57043#comment-184456 I think they are talking about improving the efficiency of heat recovery systems.

]]> By: Ivor O'Connor http://cleantechnica.com/2013/09/30/new-thermoelectric-material-created-caged-atoms/#comment-184453 Tue, 01 Oct 2013 16:26:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=57043#comment-184453 Excuse my ignorance but I don’t have the intelligence to understand this article either. Are we talking about the possibility of a new super capacitor that can be controlled magnetically? Or something else?

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