Heat -> Electricity. It's fucking primative how much energy we waste as heat

Pic related, but there's more ways than one.

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.

All this other shit is just micro optimizations.

Other urls found in this thread:

popsci.com/technology/article/2011-06/new-alloy-can-convert-heat-directly-electricity
bioliteenergy.com/
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermoelectric_effect
sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214785316302814
twitter.com/NSFWRedditVideo

Oh, and link, in case anyone wants to read it:

popsci.com/technology/article/2011-06/new-alloy-can-convert-heat-directly-electricity

Also, biolites have a heat -> electricity component that powers a fan for cleaner burning.

bioliteenergy.com/

If you know of other links on the subject, don't be a lazy asshole, share them.

>popsci
Post this on /sci/ and watch laughter directed at your expense.

>popsci
I don't know that journal, mate.

shouldn't they have a link to an actully academic paper? or are they really that bad of a meme?

Do you have another piece of matter you can count like an abacus? Are you retarded?

>2011
Fuck right off.

>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?

>popsci
>hurrdurr globle wwarmin is reeeel

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.

>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

probably better operating temperatures too.

By not giving up.

>”we’ll fix the basic laws of physics and create a perpetual motion machine someday”
kek

>what is the Peltier/Seebeck effect

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

In terms of locomotion, first thought is hyper-loops. Talking about those same principles?

>Peltier/Seebeck

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermoelectric_effect

Pretty sure this is what is used in the BioLites linked in OP.

>ape that thinks that our current inefficiencies are a law of nature, and not an inability to grasp their solutions.

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.

that's why i mentioned it

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

>popsci
Fucking lmao.

he means that some energy will be recovered, not all of it.

oh wait he's actually retarded.

>sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214785316302814

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Adding on systems to capture small amounts of energy is not efficient, especially resource wise.