thermal energy recovery Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Wed, 29 Sep 2010 09:20:11 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Spin-Seebeck Effect Causing New Magnetic Semiconductor To Become Energy Harvester https://www.greenoptimistic.com/spin-seebeck-gallium-manganese-arsenide-20100929/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/spin-seebeck-gallium-manganese-arsenide-20100929/#comments Wed, 29 Sep 2010 09:20:11 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=10774 A gallium manganese arsenide semiconductor may be the material to revolutionize how electronic circuits power and recycle their waste heat, through a research of Ohio State University scientists, led by Joseph Heremans and Roberto Myers, both from OSU.

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/spin-seebeck-gallium-manganese-arsenide-20100929/feed/ 2 10774 VW Equipping Future Cars With Heat Recovery Systems https://www.greenoptimistic.com/volkswagen-thermoelectric-car-prototype-20090207/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/volkswagen-thermoelectric-car-prototype-20090207/#comments Sat, 07 Feb 2009 20:09:32 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=2128 The International Thermoelectric Society website reported that Volkswagen showed a prototype vehicle equipped with a thermoelectric generator, recovering the dissipated heat energy and converting it into electricity. The prototype has been shown at the "Thermoelektrik - Eine Chance Für Die Atomobillindustrie?" meeting held in Berlin in October 2008.

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