I don’t know. It looks like it will have an application in utilizing any industrial waste heat to generate electricity though. There’s no discussion of the efficiency of the process but I’m guessing anything that produces waste heat will see some benefit.
I am surprised Earth First isn’t bombing the facility. This new technology will encourage the enslavement of Mother Earth because cheap power will expand consuption! Woe is us!
Only if the value of the generated electricity exceeds the cost of the equipment. I would think that if they had seen good cost efficiency, they would have put some numbers into the press release
So...an engine that puts out an enormous amount of heat, say during propulsion of a car, can be cooled and provide its own electricity by this new technology?
It’s nothing more than a solid state heat pump. They have been using this technology for ages to refrigerate a space, but it had very limited practical applications because it was so inefficient.
If this new version of the tech pans out, we will have refrigerators and airconditioners that have no moving parts and do not utilize freon or refrigerant of any kind. Just simply apply a voltage to a metal plate(or in this case, semiconductor material) and it will get cold.