• New alloy discovered that converts heat directly into electricity
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[QUOTE=J!NX;30640924]You can't just pull energy out of your ass[/QUOTE] Bullshit, I'm going to make pants out of this stuff, and charge my laptop with my ass-heat! Finally! Something good will come out of my ass!
So it's just Nickel, Cobalt, Manganese and Tin? Sure the process if probably expensive but those base materials are cheap as fuck
Does it say how efficient it is anywhere? Or how much it costs to actually apply it?
How much of the energy is directly converted to electricity?
We need to just like, go to Hawaii and create some sort of magma-based power plant as a proof of concept using this stuff.
The method of converting heat to electricity is quite old, it's been used for thermocouples. A high efficient converter however, is really neat. Hmm, I think my Prof. talked about that at the last thermo-chemistry lecture. I really want to see the phase-diagrams of this alloy.
This one takes a real big blow at Solar and Wind. It'll be cool to see where this tech is in 5-10years.
[QUOTE=ExplodingGuy;30641356]Bullshit, I'm going to make pants out of this stuff, and charge my laptop with my ass-heat! Finally! Something good will come out of my ass![/QUOTE] Not a bad idea but why stop at your ass? Make clothes out of this material and use it to power your entire house.
Warm breath powered screen for a digital watch :science: or something
Holy shit, this is [B]HUGE[/B]. I just hope that it proves to be efficient. Like, really efficient. If not, this will just die away and we'll never hear of it again.
Put plates of this around the current Nuclear reactors and see a huge gain in electricity.
Put this on mobile phones, charge them up with the heat from your hands.
[QUOTE=Inconspicuous;30641498]Warm breath powered screen for a digital watch :science: or something[/QUOTE] Rectal heat powered watches.
Obligatory :science:
This is fucking awesome. Now we just need to make sure it is efficient, and cheap enough to make and we are golden.:hfive:
If the alloy produces a magnetic field when it's heated up, doesn't that mean its temperature needs to be constantly changing in order to generate an e.m.f?
Wow you basicly make a sheet of this material paint it black and lay it in the sun and it works like a solar panel, except it's easily recyclable, close to unbreakable, piss easy to make, made from widely available resources and wont decay. If this doesn't hit the markets I'm gonna give up on humanity.
Awesome.
[QUOTE=valkery;30641613]This is fucking awesome. Now we just need to make sure it is efficient, and cheap enough to make and we are golden.:hfive:[/QUOTE] It consists of Nickel, Carbon, Manganese and Tin Piss cheap
That doesn't say anything. Diamonds are made out of carbon but that doesn't mean that the production process is cheap. [i]I don't know how it is in this case[/i]
Looks like Canada's fucked.
Sweet! This means I can strap this on the barrel of an AK47, going full auto on some facists, while at the same time it charges my ipod! Ahh, what a wonderful world.
[QUOTE=Number-41;30641960]That doesn't say anything. Diamonds are made out of carbon but that doesn't mean that the production process is cheap. [i]I don't know how it is in this case[/i][/QUOTE] Least the materials are actually cheap, unlike rare earth metals (okay, they're cheap now, but they won't be in five years or so, especially when China has the rest of the world by the balls with their supplies).
You should all take into account that most "new" elements and alloys and suck that we discover are only able to exist for a short time. Most of the time we create these in laboratories or they must be in certain conditions to exist. This isn't a one-solve-all solution guys however it is a great discovery. but that video leads me to believe the opposite that this is stable under normal circumstances. This is amazing!
Imagine a device strapped to your wrist with this metal. your body heat charges it up, and when someone tries to mug you... BAM you hit them with your self-charging stun-device. this is an awesome discovery.
Just think, prosthetics that run from body heat. A pacemaker that never requires a new battery.
I have about a dozen questions about this, but the main ones are: How efficient is it? What's it's melting point? Production cost? How long does it last? Can I have some?
Like Alan, I want to know about this thing's efficiency and production cost before I make any thoughts about it. I also want to know how it operates. Does it have to be constantly heated and cooled to generate electricity? Or does it somehow continually generate electricity as long as its at a certain temperature? For that matter, what [b]is[/b] that temperature?
[QUOTE=Alan Ninja!;30642171]I have about a dozen questions about this, but the main ones are: How efficient is it? What's it's melting point? Production cost? How long does it last? Can I have some?[/QUOTE] I was thinking the same. There has to be a catch. It sounds too good to be true but Oh man I really hope its not. I think this might completely revolutionize the world of Electro-magnetism. It is after all the way a lot of our daily devices and things are headed and already are. Just think, it creates electricity through heat, make it create friction against something else between coils, a never-ending source of electricity since the friction always keeps it warm! (if the melting point is high enough.) The electric fields and magnetic fields might grow from the current flowing through the coils exponentially though so there would have to be a check system to make sure it doesn't go out of control.
Does that mean you could make a cooling system that actually generates power? [editline]22nd June 2011[/editline] theoretically
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