Body Heat Used To Charge Electronics?

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Researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy and the University of California at Berkeley say they may have a way of turning small amounts of heat into electricity.

The secret, they say, lies in nanowires, or microscopic strands of silicon. Arranged and bent in a particular way, they channel heat energy far more efficiently than current designs for thermoconductors. With improved efficiency comes better energy conversion, to the point that even the temperatures generated by body heat could produce enough electricity to charge the batteries in small technology.
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OMGWTFBBQ!?! They found a way to use the Pelteir effect?! *WOW* /sarcasm...

I mean this is new? Or did they just make it a bunch more efficient? Because your motherboard/cpu already figured out how to do it, temperature translates to a voltage which your bios reads to and converts to a temperature.
 
JethroXP said:
Soooo....wasn't this the premise behind the body farms in The Matrix?
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Go back to sleep Neo...erm...Jethro, everything is OK...in the Matrix. ;)


sfsuphysics said:
OMGWTFBBQ!?! They found a way to use the Pelteir effect?! *WOW* /sarcasm...

I mean this is new? Or did they just make it a bunch more efficient? Because your motherboard/cpu already figured out how to do it, temperature translates to a voltage which your bios reads to and converts to a temperature.
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yes, charging a cell phone with your armpit is new.
 
hey, I've been using my farts to brew my friends' coffees for years


Not that they know
 
sfsuphysics said:
OMGWTFBBQ!?! They found a way to use the Pelteir effect?! *WOW* /sarcasm...

I mean this is new? Or did they just make it a bunch more efficient? Because your motherboard/cpu already figured out how to do it, temperature translates to a voltage which your bios reads to and converts to a temperature.
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I think the key word is "efficiency." At the moment, TEs only convert the tiniest amount of available heat.
 
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sfsuphysics said:
I mean this is new? Or did they just make it a bunch more efficient? Because your motherboard/cpu already figured out how to do it, temperature translates to a voltage which your bios reads to and converts to a temperature.
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Dude....thats not creating electricity, its an electronic sensor.
 
I was watching matrix for 200000th time when I read the headline... best damn movie ever made.
 
There was a show on the Science channel about alternative fuels. A pair of scientists have created bio-fuel from fat that was taken out during liposuction. With the obesity problem in the country, especially among the poor, we could end obesity and we can stop using crude oil all in 1 shot.. :)
 
RandomNY said:
There was a show on the Science channel about alternative fuels. A pair of scientists have created bio-fuel from fat that was taken out during liposuction. With the obesity problem in the country, especially among the poor, we could end obesity and we can stop using crude oil all in 1 shot.. :)
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So instead of giving a lot of money to the oil barons, we can give them to plastic surgeons instead, and if that scenario were to occur......I'd rethink my career options :D
 
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