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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. Re:Energy conversion devices by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Nobody doubts it can be done, see Peltier. They're not terribly efficient (I thought they were 15% efficiency capable, but I guess not..)

  2. Dupe by Ancil · · Score: 5, Informative

    Dupe from at least 2002. Both the slashdot article and the technology.

  3. Similar work been done before by davidmcn · · Score: 5, Informative

    A few years ago (6 I believe) a company called Cool Chips LLC (which was traded on PinkSheets.com back then) claimed to have done the same thing. Unfortunately outside of the first round of announcements (which may have even been on Slashdot), nothing more was mentioned. In the comments back then it was hypothesized that an energy conglomerate or oil company would buy Cool Chips out to keep the technology from ever coming to the market. Me wonders if that might have happened, or if some of the primaries from Cool Chips are now a part of this venture.

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    Memories become legend, Legend fades to myth, and even myth is forgotten by the time that age comes again.-Robert Jordan
  4. Peltier-Seebeck by tigre · · Score: 5, Informative

    See wikipedia for more. Seebeck is the reverse effect.