Cool Dept: Turning Heat Into Sound Into Electricity

[LFO]

The article below describes a process physicists are working on to convert heat into sound and then into electricity. The process could take the heat from our computers and use the heat to run the computer while cooling the system at the same time. Very cool...

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2141926,00.asp

-Kevin

[LFO]

The way I figure it is if they think they can develop a practical solution then more power to 'em. If you don't try you don't achieve...

-Kevin

[Garritan]

Yes,very cool! It seems like they have some physicists behind this.

Sound into electricity. Who knows, yodelling may hold the key as a future source of energy! :D

[SeanHannifin]

It is an incentive to sing!