New inexpensive, scalable design takes advantage of the optical switchability of porous polymers; could be used for heating, cooling, and lighting buildings, as well as camouflage applicatio... Read more
Using a number of liquid-cooled microchannel receivers, each equipped with an array of multi-junction photovoltaic chips, each HCPVT can produce enough power, water, and cooling to supply se... Read more
Replacing the expensive material should allow the process to eventually create thermoelectrics as cheap as paint. Thermoelectric materials are also currently used in the type of coole... Read more
Costs less than 50 cents a year to run The basic idea with radiators is that they should, well, radiate heat out into the room. Given that they’re almost always located against... Read more