Scientists Invented an Entirely New Method of Refrigeration
14h 28m ago by piefed.social/u/inimzi in science from www.sciencealert.com
Say hello to ionocaloric cooling.
pfff they are still using cold
Interesting, but I don't see it as practical anytime soon. It's going to be expensive/hard seperating out the salt from the solvent, and even the paper's author recognises as such.
I wonder how Elastocaloric refrigeration compares, because that's looking like a far more viable alternative.
I wonder how long until we can efficiently convert heat into energy, instead of just moving it around and generating even more heat
Heat IS energy.
Sorry, bad English. I mean electricity
We're already close to the efficiency limit. Look up Carnot cycle.
The Carnot cycle is just for the Carnot engine. If we could use chemistry or quantum systems, it would have different efficiencies