
DISCOVERY CAPTURES, CONVERTS HEAT
Date: Wednesday, April 06, 2005 @ 22:26:45 UTC Topic: Devices
Your car's engine loses 70 percent of its energy as waste heat-but Australian and Oregon scientists may have figured out an efficient way not only to recover that lost energy, but to at long last capture the power-producing potential of geothermal heat.
The trick is to convert it to electricity-and a promising way to accomplish this, the researchers have discovered, involves using extremely thin nanowires to potentially more than double the efficiency of thermoelectric materials.
Full story at http://www.physorg.com/news3613.html
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