{"id":216240,"date":"2025-06-19T05:27:54","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T10:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/improved-thermoelectrics-scientists-harness-traffic-jam-of-electrons-to-boost-heat-to-electricity-conversion"},"modified":"2025-06-19T05:27:54","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T10:27:54","slug":"improved-thermoelectrics-scientists-harness-traffic-jam-of-electrons-to-boost-heat-to-electricity-conversion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/improved-thermoelectrics-scientists-harness-traffic-jam-of-electrons-to-boost-heat-to-electricity-conversion","title":{"rendered":"Improved thermoelectrics: Scientists harness \u2018traffic jam of electrons\u2019 to boost heat-to-electricity conversion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/improved-thermoelectrics-scientists-harness-traffic-jam-of-electrons-to-boost-heat-to-electricity-conversion3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Electricity can be easily converted into heat\u2014every electric cooker does it. But is the opposite also possible? Can heat be converted into electricity\u2014directly, without a steam turbine or similar detours?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Electricity can be easily converted into heat\u2014every electric cooker does it. But is the opposite also possible? Can heat be converted into electricity\u2014directly, without a steam turbine or similar detours?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216240","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}