Hi,
Yeah that is no spelling error. These things have been around for a long time but were too inefficient to be used for anything. Now experiments at the University of Colorado Boulder have shown that these things can be made resonant in the quantum sense so that electrons can tunnel through the insulators and thus pass without resistance. This means energy can really be harnessed from leftover heat from primary processes like manufacturing.
So far the efficiency is only around 1 percent, but improvements will bring that up.
So we may be looking at a new renewable energy source that can be widely used around the world to capture energy that would otherwise be wasted as heat.
These things are very small but a lot of them can be used together to generate usable electrical energy. The basic operation is quantum resonance with quantum tunneling to rectify into DC. Quantum tunneling is that property where something can pass though a 'wall' without affecting either itself or the 'wall'. The wall in this case is an insulator.
Yeah that is no spelling error. These things have been around for a long time but were too inefficient to be used for anything. Now experiments at the University of Colorado Boulder have shown that these things can be made resonant in the quantum sense so that electrons can tunnel through the insulators and thus pass without resistance. This means energy can really be harnessed from leftover heat from primary processes like manufacturing.
So far the efficiency is only around 1 percent, but improvements will bring that up.
So we may be looking at a new renewable energy source that can be widely used around the world to capture energy that would otherwise be wasted as heat.
These things are very small but a lot of them can be used together to generate usable electrical energy. The basic operation is quantum resonance with quantum tunneling to rectify into DC. Quantum tunneling is that property where something can pass though a 'wall' without affecting either itself or the 'wall'. The wall in this case is an insulator.