To: Gorzaloon
You might want to look at powerchips.gi. They make the claim of 70% heat to electricity via the Josephson Junction process(hot electrons tunnel thru the nano-scale barrier, leaving the cold electrons behind). It's already in product testing, getting ready for mass production in europe. It will first appear in german cars. They also claim 40% efficiency in the cooling mode.
16 posted on
02/23/2007 1:02:39 AM PST by
timer
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To: timer
Took a few minutes to peruse the Powerchips site.
Very interesting to say the least.
Depending on the efficiency, those could potentially rival photovoltaics in a solar reflector setup.
Going to keep watching that site to see if it pans out.
17 posted on
02/23/2007 1:15:26 AM PST by
Dr.Zoidberg
(Mohammedanism - Bringing you only the best of the 6th century for fourteen hundred years.)
To: timer
You might want to look at powerchips.gi. They make the claim of 70% heat to electricity via the Josephson Junction process(hot electrons tunnel thru the nano-scale barrier, leaving the cold electrons behind). It's already in product testing, getting ready for mass production in europe. It will first appear in german cars. They also claim 40% efficiency in the cooling mode.When I left the field about 15 years ago, there was a lot of interest in quantum dots..is that related?
18 posted on
02/23/2007 2:52:33 AM PST by
Gorzaloon
(Global Warming: A New Kind Of Scientology for the Rest Of Us.)
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