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MIT develops thermo-PV cell with 40% efficiency
Researchers at MIT have developed a heat engine that can convert heat to electricity with 40% efficiency. Unlike traditional heat engines – a common example is the internal combustion engine inside a car – this device doesn’t have any moving … Continue reading
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Tagged Carnot efficiency, decarbonisation, epitaxy, firebrick energy storage, graphite, heat engine, heat pump, long-term energy storage, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, molten silicon, photovoltaic effect, power density, thermophotovoltaic cells
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Before seeing, there are the ways of imaging
When May-Britt Moser, Edvard Moser and John O’Keefe were awarded the 2014 Nobel Prize for physiology and medicine “for their discoveries of cells that constitute a positioning system in the brain”, there was a noticeable uptick in the number of … Continue reading
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Tagged charge coupled device, CMOS, cryo-electron microscopy, detective quantum efficiency, direct electron detector, epitaxy, eukaryotic ribosomes, phtographic film, scintillator, skipper CCD
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