Incoming freshmen at California colleges are asked to keep their Red Bulls in thermoelectric fridges.
The Pioneers, Viking, the Voyagers and even the manned Apollo spacecraft were equipped with plutonium-filled radioisotope thermoelectric generators, or RTGs, to supplement the .
The thermoelectric effect--temperature differences between two ends of a circuit can be converted directly to voltage--allows us to recover some of that lost energy.
Body Temperature Textile Charges Phone Thermoelectric material coverts body heat into voltage and current; plus it's small and flexible enough to be woven into fabric. Continue reading ?
June 17, 2013 - Discovery News
Pocket and Sleeping Bag Can Charge Your Phone Forget searching for charging outlets and plug points, you can now charge your phone with body heat and a sleeping bag or pocket in your clothes Vodafone revealed this week the wearable Power Pocket charger. It works by using technology called thermocouples, pairs of thermoelectric material designed to be small and flexible enough to stitch onto clothing. A number of them are printed and then ...
June 13, 2013 - Mashable