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Company Claims New Chip Converts Heat To Electricity

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the confirmed-skeptics-unite dept.

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.

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  1. Woohoo I have two options by McNihil · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  2. Intel announces new chip by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  3. Human battery by MECC · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Brown also sees the chips ultimately replacing batteries altogether."

    Especially if implanted in people. From birth. In vast crops...

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  4. ahh that's nothing by lubricated · · Score: 5, Funny

    I've had a chip in my computer that converted electricity into heat. It was called a p4.

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  5. Re:eno2001 Claims Stomach... by Warg!+The+Orcs!! · · Score: 4, Funny

    then it's a Koobrewop

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