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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. eno2001 Claims Stomach... by eno2001 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    ..converts salsa to crap. That is all.

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  2. Amd vs Intel by Nushio · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Assuming this technology proves to be true, which one of the two titans would adopt it first?

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  3. heat - electricity by rootEToTheIPi · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I didn't RTFA so...it seems to me that a chip that converts heat energy into electricity could have uses far more important uses than computing.

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