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Harvesting electrical power from wasted heat

SOURCE: DIGG • 2009-11-18
TOPICS: Internal Combustion Engine • Energy Conversion • Technology_internet • Environment

[107 diggs @ General Sciences] In everything from computer processor chips to car engines to electric powerplants, the need to get rid of excess heat creates a major source of inefficiency. But new research points the way to a technology that might make it possible to harvest m... read more »

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