New Material Breaks World Record Turning Heat into Electricity

Re:New Material Breaks World Record Turning Heat into Electr... by 0xBA5ED on Tuesday December 31, 2019 @05:23AM (#21920069)

No you can't make a perpetual motion machine with it ;)

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Re:New Material Breaks World Record Turning Heat into Electr... by Zenst on Tuesday December 31, 2019 @05:27AM (#21920086)

But could you produce a cooling system that this could power?

Or at least recycle some of the heat fridge/freezers produce back into electricity.

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Re:New Material Breaks World Record Turning Heat into Electr... by 0xBA5ED on Tuesday December 31, 2019 @05:36AM (#21920118)

>Or at least recycle some of the heat fridge/freezers produce back into electricity

This was already possible. Now you could just do it more efficiently.

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Re:New Material Breaks World Record Turning Heat into Electr... by mping on Tuesday December 31, 2019 @05:42AM (#21920141)

I was thinking more like CPUs and GPUs

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Re:New Material Breaks World Record Turning Heat into Electr... by 0xBA5ED on Tuesday December 31, 2019 @05:45AM (#21920151)

Right. I'm thinking about server farms.

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Re:New Material Breaks World Record Turning Heat into Electr... by icris on Tuesday December 31, 2019 @06:44AM (#21920396)

i am aware of it. i was not pretending we could reach zero entropy but nevertheless it manifests entropy reduction compared to an energetic non-optimal raw material doesn't it? meaning if we need less energy for the same amount of work we do it more efficiently and therefore require less (but not null!) entropic output

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