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PowerPot- cooking pots to power gadgets and camping devices

Adrian — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 10:40:26 +0000

It is generally known that thermoelectric materials are able to generate an electrical current due to a temperature gradient within them. From a Gizmag article we found that entrepreneurs David Toledo and Paul Slusser have developed a line of thermoelectric cooking pots for camping. The cooking pots called PowerPot come in two sizes. Both of […]

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Power Felt – a promising new device that convert body heat into an electrical current

Gabriel — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 17:16:24 +0000

Simply by touching a small piece of Power Felt you can convert your body heat into an electrical current. Comprised of tiny carbon nanotubes locked up in flexible plastic fibers and made to feel like fabric, Power Felt uses temperature differences – room temperature versus body temperature, for instance – to create a charge. “We […]

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Harnessing Hotspots

Gabriel — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 19:40:14 +0000

Electronic devices often develop ‘hot spots’ that can become detrimental to performance. Much research has focused on developing methods to cool the system, or, even better, convert the excess heat to electricity by exploiting the thermoelectric effect — where a thermal gradient induces the movement of charge carriers. However, previous attempts at building chip-level generators […]

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How to convert waste heat to electricity at the nanoscale

Gabriel — Sat, 18 Dec 2010 20:37:11 +0000

Scientists have discovered that a class of materials known to convert heat to electricity and vice versa behaves quite unexpectedly at the nanoscale in response to changes in temperature. The discovery — described in the December 17, 2010, issue of Science — is a new “opposite-direction” phase transition that helps explain the strong thermoelectric response […]

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Harvesting Energy Through Heat

Adrian — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 21:12:35 +0000

The huge development of the industrial field has seen an important growth these years and all new units are capable to generate heat. The heat has often been treated simple as a waste and nobody wonder if this enormous quantities of heat could be transformed into a source of electric power. A research team of […]

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