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Japanese Thermoelectric Generator Yields Record Efficiency

Arsenij Percov — Thu, 12 Jul 2018 19:33:37 +0000

Nowadays we can notice that a lot of devices and objects we use daily are becoming smarter every day. We can see this trend with speakers, refrigerators, watches, bulbs, and even cars. They connect to the internet and share data with other items, creating the network called the Internet of Things (IoT). Therefore, the idea […]

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Body Heat Harvesting Wearable Patch Better than Batteries

Guest Contributor — Wed, 20 Jan 2016 08:09:34 +0000

There is a new hope for keeping wearable gadgets hooked as long as you like, without even minding of charging them. An NSF sponsored nanoengineering research center, ASSIST or Advanced Self Powered Systems of Integrated Sensors of North Carolina State University, have been developing sensors that use body heat to power up wearable gadgets. The […]

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Thermoelectric Generator Harvests Renewable Energy, Yours

Benji Jerew — Wed, 16 Apr 2014 15:31:00 +0000

As pointed out in a famous movie, human beings generate a lot of extra heat. This renewable energy source could be harvested, hopefully not to power some robot-horde, but perhaps some of tomorrow’s wearable devices. Take, for example, the smartwatch, a wireless extension of the smartphone, which not only tells time and date, but can […]

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3D Printable Thin Film Thermoelectric Generator is Flexible Enough to Install Anywhere

Benji Jerew — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 07:28:51 +0000

Most energy systems are extremely inefficient, but flexible thermoelectric generators could recover some of that lost energy and put it back into the system. If we’ve ever seen steam billowing from a cooling tower or felt the hot exhaust coming from an automobile, what we’ve really been seeing is lost energy. According to the US […]

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Fraunhofer Team Invents Printed Thermoelectric Device

Mila Luleva — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 17:06:42 +0000

At the Electronica trade fair in Munich (13 – 16 November), researchers from the Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Technology and Advanced Materials IFAM in Bremen is presenting a striking innovation. A printed thermogenerator, manufactured by the team, which deposits functional structures containing ink or paste base, and has electrical circuit boards and sensors that can […]

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Thermoelectric Generator: How to Build One

Ovidiu Sandru — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 16:10:54 +0000

A thermoelectric generator is a semiconductor device that transforms the heat difference between its two layers into electricity. It belongs to a class of materials called “thermoelectrics” and are one of auto industry’s greatest hopes in what regards the savings obtained from an internal combustion engine, and is also called “Peltier generator.” With a Peltier generator, […]

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GM to Research Shape Memory Alloy for Heat Recovery Systems

Cristi — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 07:19:54 +0000

GM's R&D has to build a prototype of a thermo-mechanical waste heat recovery system using a Shape Memory Alloy (SMA) heat engine to generate electricity from the heat in exhaust. Noticeable is the fact that GM was between the 37 other candidates that received the ARPA-E award.

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