It might be interesting to use waste heat to power fans. That’s right in that range for power needs, and it could be largely self-contained.
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SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world 4 months ago
And no word on efficiency in the article. I guess it won’t be better than other thermo-electric devices they are 5-8% efficient.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
Static_Rocket@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Data centers will probably be the only practical application. Consumer electronics will probably barely produce enough energy to power the regulator and tie-in circuit just to feed back into the pwm driver for fans nowadays.
kescusay@lemmy.world 4 months ago
The way I see it, every little bit helps. If even a little of the waste heat can be recaptured as electricity for operation, it’s a good thing unless the conversion itself has a higher energy cost, and from what I can tell, that’s not the case with this technique.