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Company Claims New Chip Converts Heat To Electricity
Dster76 writes to tell us that the startup, Eneco, has invented a solid state energy conversion chip which they claim will be able to convert heat directly into electricity or reach temperatures of -200 C when given an electrical current. While such a device could revolutionize many aspects of computing I'll keep my skeptic hat on for the time being.
If we all implanted such a chip in our handpalms we could watch pr0n and save the world at the same time!
Burn a fiery death of an exploding battery.
OR
Massive Freezer burn on my lap and thus gonads.
This is truly astonishing.
I do not believe a word of this.
Heat to electricity? Bring on global warming!
Intel announces new chip to turn electricity into heat, I believe it's called Pentium or something like that. It's apparently very very VERY very good at it.
"Brown also sees the chips ultimately replacing batteries altogether."
Especially if implanted in people. From birth. In vast crops...
"We are all geniuses when we dream"
- E.M. Cioran
I've had a chip in my computer that converted electricity into heat. It was called a p4.
It has been statistically shown that helmets increase the risk of head injury.
That's a T4$ Hangover!
Heat to electricity? It's like my Powerbook, only in reverse!
"Flyin' in just a sweet place,
Never been known to fail..."
then it's a Koobrewop
Travelling forward in time at a rate of 1 second per second.
Just ask MC Hawking.
Entropy, how can I explain it? I'll take it frame by frame it,
to have you all jumping, shouting saying it.
Let's just say that it's a measure of disorder,
in a system that is closed, like with a border.
It's sorta, like a, well a measurement of randomness,
proposed in 1850 by a German, but wait I digress.
"What the fuck is entropy?", I here the people still exclaiming,
it seems I gotta start the explaining.
You down with entropy?
Yeah, you know me!
Yeah, you know me!
Yeah, you know me!
Who's down with entropy?
Every last homey!
Why yes, I AM a rocket scientist!
everybody get yourselves a Prescott and that will generate all the electricity you will need.
Turn e-e-electricity! into h-h-heat!
Please, for the good of Humanity, vote Obama.
Thermo FUCKING dynamics.