Researchers at the University of Michigan ran a light emitting diode (LED) with electrodes reversed in order to cool another device mere nanometers away. The approach could lead to new solid-state cooling technology for future microprocessors, which will have so many transistors packed into a small space that current methods can’t remove heat quickly enough.
This could turn out to be important for future smartphones and other computers. With more computing power in smaller and smaller devices, removing the heat from the microprocessor is beginning to limit how much power can be squeezed into a given space.
https://www.rtoz.org/2019/02/18/running-an-led-in-reverse-could-cool-future-computers/
[How does this compare to a Peltier device?
--Ed.]
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday February 20 2019, @02:24AM (2 children)
Sucks to be so greedy, ain't it?
If you would only export half of it and use the other half to heat your home, you wouldn't become super-conductive.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by pipedwho on Wednesday February 20 2019, @02:53AM (1 child)
Not greedy as such. Just forgot the thermostat and without the laws of thermodynamics to asympote it towards an energy equilibrium it got out of hand. Barely made it to the off switch before I was too frozen to move.
(Score: 1) by anubi on Wednesday February 20 2019, @03:52AM
Carnot is a bitch when it comes any useful energy from heat differentials.
"Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." [KJV: I Thessalonians 5:21]