New Heat Engine With No Moving Parts Could Fully Decarbonize the Power Grid - SciTechDaily

A New Heat Engine With No Moving Parts Is As Efficient as a Steam Turbine The design could someday enable a fully decarbonized power grid, researchers say. Engineers at MIT and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have designed a heat engine with n…

A thermophotovoltaic (TPV) cell (size 1 cm x 1 cm) mounted on a heat sink designed to measure the TPV cell efficiency. To measure the efficiency, the cell is exposed to an emitter and simultaneous me… [+6562 chars]

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