New device may make converting waste heat to electricity industrially competitive
Thursday, May 21, 2015 - 08:40
in Physics & Chemistry
(Phys.org)—Currently, up to 75% of the energy generated by a car's engine is lost as waste heat. In theory, some of this waste heat can be converted into electricity using thermoelectric devices, although so far the efficiency of these devices has been too low to enable widespread commercialization.