Harnessing Waste Heat from Laptop Computers, Cell Phones May Double Battery Time

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In everything from computer processor chips to car engines to electric powerplants, the need to get rid of excess heat creates a major source of inefficiency.

In everything from computer processor chips to car engines to electric powerplants, the need to get rid of excess heat creates a major source of inefficiency. But new research points the way to a technology that might make it possible to harvest much of that wasted heat and turn it into usable electricity.

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