{"id":96629,"date":"2019-09-24T13:26:04","date_gmt":"2019-09-24T20:26:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/a-new-way-to-turn-heat-into-energy"},"modified":"2019-09-24T13:26:04","modified_gmt":"2019-09-24T20:26:04","slug":"a-new-way-to-turn-heat-into-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/a-new-way-to-turn-heat-into-energy","title":{"rendered":"A new way to turn heat into energy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-new-way-to-turn-heat-into-energy2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An international team of scientists has figured out how to capture heat and turn it into electricity.<\/p>\n<p>The discovery, published last week in the journal <i>Science Advances<\/i>, could create more efficient <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/energy\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">energy<\/a> generation from heat in things like car exhaust, interplanetary space probes and <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/industrial+processes\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">industrial processes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause of this discovery, we should be able to make more <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/electrical+energy\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">electrical energy<\/a> out of heat than we do today,\u201d said study co-author Joseph Heremans, professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering and Ohio Eminent Scholar in Nanotechnology at The Ohio State University. \u201cIt\u2019s something that, until now, nobody thought was possible.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An international team of scientists has figured out how to capture heat and turn it into electricity. The discovery, published last week in the journal Science Advances, could create more efficient energy generation from heat in things like car exhaust, interplanetary space probes and industrial processes. \u201cBecause of this discovery, we should be able to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,38,4,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-engineering","category-nanotechnology","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96629","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96629\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}