recover heat Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Mon, 09 Mar 2009 06:02:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 BMW Saves Fuel With Pipe-Mounted Radioactive Device https://www.greenoptimistic.com/bmw-nuclear-thermoelectric-20090309/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/bmw-nuclear-thermoelectric-20090309/#comments Mon, 09 Mar 2009 06:02:49 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=2893 In a world that tries to save more and more of its resources, BMW wants to make use of the car's heat to recover some of the energy lost by thermal means. It's just that they understood this time by being green means putting a radioactive thermoelectric generator in the car's tailpipe.

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