10 Quadrillion BTU In Untapped Waste Energy Gets Supersonic Thermoelectric Treatment
If all goes according to plan, a new thermoelectric makeover for power plants will put the squeeze on fossil energy by converting waste heat to electricity.
If all goes according to plan, a new thermoelectric makeover for power plants will put the squeeze on fossil energy by converting waste heat to electricity.
No wonder the Army is so excited about thermoelectric technology, it’s the perfect energy scavenging system for those new surveillance drones you’ve been reading so much about. With a high power density and freedom from maintenance due to their lack of moving parts, thermoelectric systems are lightweight, durable, miniaturizable and … [continued]
Researchers at the University of Michigan have just announced a new breakthrough for making a class of relatively cheap thermoelectric materials that are as lightweight and tough as your favorite kitchen wrap. When wrapped around a hot object or a piece of motorized equipment, thermoelectric materials convert waste heat to … [continued]
Researchers at Wake Forest University have invented a flexible thermoelectric material that could enable clothing to generate enough electricity to power some portable electronics, such as cellphones.
A sprawling international collaboration between scientists at government and university laboratories has resulted in a breakthrough discovery that could lead to more efficient ways of generating electricity from waste heat. The phenomenon, called the thermoelectric effect, can be applied to car exhaust, factory emissions, and other operations to capture the … [continued]