I'm just posting this to remind everyone that as soon as we start getting really good at turning heat into electricity, literally every machines performance will be improved.
If you know of other links on the subject, don't be a lazy asshole, share them.
Parker Lopez
>popsci Post this on /sci/ and watch laughter directed at your expense.
Lucas Harris
>popsci I don't know that journal, mate.
Lincoln Diaz
shouldn't they have a link to an actully academic paper? or are they really that bad of a meme?
Landon Rivera
Do you have another piece of matter you can count like an abacus? Are you retarded?
Daniel Campbell
>2011 Fuck right off.
Gabriel Collins
>material becomes magnetic when it's warm And how do you produce electricity from this? Induction requires a changing magnetic field. This field here wouldn't change. If you could get electricity from just a permanent magnet, why not use a permanent magnet?
Matthew Powell
>popsci >hurrdurr globle wwarmin is reeeel
Christopher Parker
You fucking retards, the pic is related, not the central point of the thread. Anything that converts heat to energy counts. Steam engines even.
You're all obviously corporate suck ups who just argue over which corporation is worse than the other, so go back to your shitty laptop and cellphone threads.
The point still stands, energy loss to heat is fucking primitive. We'll fix it someday, and how.
Daniel Powell
>turn on computer >computers starts heating up >turn off computer >computer still runs on it's own heat >turn it on again once it starts cooling off
magnets
Connor Jackson
probably better operating temperatures too.
Nicholas Garcia
By not giving up.
Grayson Hughes
>”we’ll fix the basic laws of physics and create a perpetual motion machine someday” kek
Caleb Wright
>what is the Peltier/Seebeck effect
Sebastian Cooper
Turning thermal energy into electricity when made a little better will be good, but magnets and harnesing the void off atmospheric energy that surrounds us everyday. That is the future
If you dont know what im talking about read up on tesla
Jaxson Butler
In terms of locomotion, first thought is hyper-loops. Talking about those same principles?
Pretty sure this is what is used in the BioLites linked in OP.
Oliver Taylor
>ape that thinks that our current inefficiencies are a law of nature, and not an inability to grasp their solutions.
Joseph Ward
Heat to electricity tops out around 35% efficiency for turbines.
Everything else has single digit percentage efficiency. It can still be useful, nuclear heat source and conversion to electricity for a nuclear battery for instance. It won't make much impact on the efficiency of most machines though.
Jordan Lopez
that's why i mentioned it
Luis Anderson
If you studied a little bit of thermodynamics, you d' know that you need a temperature gradient to be able to use some heat energy. A lot of thermal energy is unused because you can't put it in a big enough gradient to do anything useful
Jonathan Baker
>popsci Fucking lmao.
Charles Wood
he means that some energy will be recovered, not all of it.