System draws power from daily temperature swings
Date: Tuesday, February 20, 2018 @ 16:06:36 UTC
Topic: Devices
 From News.MIT.edu: The team’s test device, which has been deployed on the roof of an MIT building for several months, was used to prove the principle behind their new energy-harvesting concept. The test device is the black box at right, behind a weather-monitoring system (white) and a set of test equipment to monitor the device’s performance (larger black case at left). /Image: Justin Raymond
System draws power from daily temperature swings
Technology developed at MIT can harness temperature fluctuations of many kinds to produce electricity. /David L. Chandler | MIT News Office/ February 15, 2018
Thermoelectric devices, which can generate power when one side of the device is a different temperature from the other, have been the subject of much research in recent years. Now, a team at MIT has come up with a novel way to convert temperature fluctuations into electrical power. Instead of requiring two different temperature inputs at the same time, the new system takes advantage of the swings in ambient temperature that occur during the day-night cycle...
Full story: http://news.mit.edu/2018/system-draws-power-daily-temperature-swings-0215
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