Waste Heat to Electricity?

Darwin_Frog writes: "Recent advances in thermionics at MIT lets waste heat generate electricity, thus pushing entropy one step further down the chain. These devices work at a temperature around 250 deg. C, instead of around 1000, so cars can augment the alternator by using the waste heat in the exhaust system to produce power for onboard electronics and A/C."

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Cold Fusion Redux

[Baldrson]

Peter L. Hagelstein was the guy at MIT who had MIT's lawyers churning out cold fusion patents like there was no tomorrow at the same time that MIT's official position was that cold fusion was an illusion -- and making official recommendations against its funding.