The temperature on any given summer day may be in the 80s or 90s. So why does it feel so much hotter and oppressive at times? That's the heat index doing its thing. Here's how it works: What is the ...
Waste heat recovery is a significant opportunity – in 2015, 59.2 quadrillion BTU of energy was wasted mainly in the form of heat. Much of the waste heat has been characterized by its source and its ...
High performer Purified tin selenide shown in pellet form. The material's thermoelectric performance is extraordinarily high. (Courtesy: Northwestern University) Researchers in Korea and the US have ...
MIT researchers have a new energy storage design that will store heat generated by excess electricity from solar or wind power in large tanks of white-hot molten silicon. It converts the light from ...
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Thermoelectric material hits record 13% waste heat-to-electricity conversion
The prototype delivered 13 per cent conversion efficiency, which, in simple terms, meant that with the prototype, for every ...
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