{"id":207458,"date":"2025-02-28T13:14:33","date_gmt":"2025-02-28T19:14:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/prototype-turns-car-and-helicopter-exhaust-into-thermoelectric-energy"},"modified":"2025-02-28T13:14:33","modified_gmt":"2025-02-28T19:14:33","slug":"prototype-turns-car-and-helicopter-exhaust-into-thermoelectric-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/prototype-turns-car-and-helicopter-exhaust-into-thermoelectric-energy","title":{"rendered":"Prototype turns car and helicopter exhaust into thermoelectric energy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/prototype-turns-car-and-helicopter-exhaust-into-thermoelectric-energy2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Combustion engines, the engines in gas-powered cars, only use a quarter of the fuel\u2019s potential energy while the rest is lost as heat through exhaust.<\/p>\n<p>Now, a study published in ACS Applied Materials &amp; Interfaces demonstrates how to convert exhaust heat into electricity. The researchers present a prototype thermoelectric generator system that could reduce fuel consumption and carbon dioxide emissions\u2014an opportunity for improving sustainable energy initiatives in a rapidly changing world.<\/p>\n<p>Fuel inefficiency contributes to greenhouse gas emissions and underscores the need for innovative waste-heat recovery systems. Heat-recovery systems, called thermoelectric systems, use semiconductor materials to convert heat into electricity based on a temperature difference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Combustion engines, the engines in gas-powered cars, only use a quarter of the fuel\u2019s potential energy while the rest is lost as heat through exhaust. Now, a study published in ACS Applied Materials &amp; Interfaces demonstrates how to convert exhaust heat into electricity. The researchers present a prototype thermoelectric generator system that could reduce fuel [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":707,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/707"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207458\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}