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That’s just another way to turn heat into electricity. Those thermocouples could also be used on a campfire.

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You think that’s hot shit: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2468606921000538

In theory, if you made it small enough, you could make a gamma rectenna. Considering gamma rays are often smaller than an atom, you’d have to make the antenna out of something other than atoms though. Good luck.

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that’s just a modified Peltier device :)

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This exists, but it’s generally only used in spacecraft.

Most terrestrial uses of RITEGs have resulted in tragedy.

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