An inexpensive thermoelectric device harnesses the cold of space without active heat input, generating electricity that powers an LED at night, researchers report September 12 in the journal... Read more
Opening up a pathway to cost-effective, autonomous IoT application Objects in our daily lives, such as speakers, refrigerators, and even cars, are becoming “smarter” day by day as they conne... Read more
Light, sound, and now, heat — just as optical invisibility cloaks can bend and diffract light to shield an object from sight, and specially fabricated acoustic metamaterials can hide a... Read more
More than two-thirds of the energy from primary sources like oil and gas utilized worldwide today is lost through waste heat. Half-Heusler compounds are especially suited for manufacturing t... Read more
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A large proportion of the energy we produce disappears unused into thin air via waste heat. Tiny thermoelectric generators can tap this potential, whereby the electricity is produced by way... Read more
The energy crisis has certainly catalyzed a great deal of thought about how we harvest all that energy we previously wasted. The petroleum-burning internal combustion engine has traditionall... Read more