Phones Powered By Body Heat
Posted: Sat Jan 12, 2008 11:43 am
There's a lot of talk about wireless electricity to get rid of all thoes cables at places such as CES. Well how about on top of that we also had portable devices that were charged up using all but yourself....no need for extra energy to be produced it charges using waste energy...
erkeley (CA) – Remarkable research findings on energy conversion have been published in the most recent edition of Nature: Scientists believe to have discovered a much more efficient way to use silicon to convert heat into electricity – for use in a variety of products ranging from cars to portable electronics.
Imagine a time in which you would not have to plug in your cellphone or iPod over night to recharge the battery. Instead you would power and charge a device simply by wearing it close to your body. The concept of converting waste heat into electricity isn’t exactly new, but it never really materialized due to efficiency hurdles. Now, scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the University of California at Berkeley think they may have found a key increase the conversion efficiency by a factor of 100.
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