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Posted Mon Dec 3 2012: from Battle Creek Enquirer:
Catching waste energy with common materials http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1354557566
Researchers at Michigan State University are working on a new low-cost approach to recapturing the heat energy that is lost in car exhaust and many other industrial processes, in search of a way to improve efficiency and decrease waste. The team is using a material based on very common naturally occurring minerals called tetrahedrites to make thermoelectric materials that have the ability to convert heat into electricity.
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