Chips could harvest their own energy using a newly-created alloy

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• pennomi@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I suppose it’s a better idea than I initially gave it credit for. It’s a new type of thermocouple, and processors do run at a fairly high heat gradient compared to ambient temperatures.

  Good luck with the actual implementation though!

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• SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨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.

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  • kescusay@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨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.

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  • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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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    • Static_Rocket@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨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.

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• 30p87@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  How about chips harvest all that air in the bag? Oh wait, not those kinda chips …

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