[DUMBGRUNT]

For the many, so consumed with being trapped in an EV with a low battery in the cold.

[rigelkentaurus]

25 milliwatts of energy per square meter

[Cooter]

https://www.ted.com/talks/aaswath_raman_how_we_can_turn_the_cold_of_outer_space_into_a_renewable_resource/transcript?language=en#t-855101

[M Kehoe]

Hi.

Getting closer and closer to Galt’s Gulch.

5.56mm

[TexasTransplant]

Post Hurricane Harvey “Hell Yeah”
(2 months without power and water... this is what makes me happy)
sarc/ big time

[TLI]

"Remarkably, the device is able to generate electricity at night, when solar cells don't work,"

Yep, works great.

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[mdmathis6]

I wonder if the same principles could be used in certain nuclear power scenarios especially in deep space which would negate the need for turbine/steam or molten media to generate sufficient current for ship or deep space base operations. Plates are heated super warmly then as the heat radiates into space the thermal transfer is tapped for electrical energy and stored in batteries and/or slow discharge large value capacitors. No moving parts! The process is continuous or could be shunted by means of control rods via the reactor core.

[Bitman]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermoelectric_effect

Thermoelectric device... Nothing new here.

[fieldmarshaldj]

*ping*

[GOPJ]

Can't any imbalance searching for equilibrium be milked for energy?

[minnesota_bound]

You can use a potato to create electricity.