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Ohio Researchers Advance Heat Reclamation Technologies

Posted by timothy on from the from-warmy-to-volty dept.

Downchuck writes "Researchers at Ohio State University claim to have synthesized a new material capable of delivering electricity directly from heat, at an efficiency far better than existing thermoelectric materials. Scott at ArsTechnica has an interesting take: 'Merge this with the new MIT solar dish and you're in business!'"

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