Something from nothing: Using waste heat to power electronics
Wednesday, February 12, 2020 - 10:10
in Physics & Chemistry
-Collecting energy from environmental waste heat such as that lost from the human body is an attractive prospect to power small electronics sustainably. A thermocell is a type of energy-harvesting device that converts environmental heat into electricity through the thermal charging effect. Although thermocells are inexpensive and efficient, so far only low output voltages–just tens […]