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Waste Heat to Electricity?

Posted by michael on from the negative-entropy dept.

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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  1. Waste heat. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait


    Should work well in Pentium and Athlon systems then.

  2. Re:Hmmm... by HBD · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    evr think that the heat would not be at 200+ degrees C at the top of a smokestake treehugger?

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  3. Re:Irony by HBD · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    only a -1 for this retard, send him back to the promate testing room and it would be better(the special ed room)

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  4. Re:waste heat by HBD · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    and just how old are you...8?

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  5. Cold Fusion Redux by Baldrson · · Score: 4, Flamebait

    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.

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