Mar
2
Dawn Of The Thermo Cell
March 2, 2010 | 2 Comments
A thermocell is a device that captures heat energy and converts it to electricity, an idea with the potential of doubling or tripling the available power supply if applied to the various thermal heat engines that are used to generate electricity. Success at high efficiency, scale and price would have a dramatic effect of power [...]
Nov
19
Progress On the Path to Harvesting Heat
November 19, 2009 | 2 Comments
Starting from scratch, without trying to improve existing technology MIT’s Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering Peter Hagelstein and graduate student Dennis Wu aimed to find how close realistic technology could come to achieving the theoretical limits for the efficiency of harvesting waste heat energy.
Hagelstein says, “There’s a gold mine in waste heat, if you could [...]
