Fig 1. A typical thermoelectric (TE) energy harvesting system consists of five key components—the TE generator, the heatsink, voltage regulation, charge management and energy storage, and power ...

Carlo Parisi, one of the engineers, envisioned creating a next-gen cooling system for the Microreactor Applications Research Validation (Marvel) project. Five years later, it's now a reality and marks ...

Researchers at Texas A&M University are perfecting a deceptively simple solution to our increasingly overburdened energy grid: ice-cooled buildings.

Instead of burning coal or oil to produce cement or steel, in the future solar energy could be used for this purpose. Researchers at ETH Zurich have developed a thermal trap that can absorb ...

The systems, which can store clean energy as heat, were chosen by readers as the 11th Breakthrough Technology of 2024.

Source: UPV/EHU [Ed. note: This article initially suggested that the stored thermal energy would also be used to generate electricity, but has since been amended.] ...

As solar power becomes a bigger part of our overall energy mix, scientists are working on more efficient ways of storing the power of the Sun for use during the night-time, or on particularly ...

If you've ever seen yourself through a thermal imaging camera, you'll know that your body produces lots of heat. This is in fact a waste product of our metabolism. Every square foot of the human ...

Pumped thermal electricity storage turns electricity into heat and back again – which can compensate for the intermittent supply of renewables.

Heat pumps are the technology of choice for heating and cooling buildings more efficiently and with fewer carbon emissions than furnaces and air conditioning.