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And no word on efficiency in the article. I guess it won’t be better than other thermo-electric devices they are 5-8% efficient.

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The way I see it, every little bit helps. If even a little of the waste heat can be recaptured as electricity for operation, it’s a good thing unless the conversion itself has a higher energy cost, and from what I can tell, that’s not the case with this technique.

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It might be interesting to use waste heat to power fans. That’s right in that range for power needs, and it could be largely self-contained.

For something like a data center, that could add up.

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Data centers will probably be the only practical application. Consumer electronics will probably barely produce enough energy to power the regulator and tie-in circuit just to feed back into the pwm driver for fans nowadays.

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Every time they purposefully ommit crucial info like this it means it’s a complete showstopper.

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