Samsung and US researchers say a new technology called thermoelectric cooling can make refrigerators 70% more energy efficient, & could enable them to power themselves from their ambient environment

Lugh · 2 天前

Samsung and US researchers say a new technology called thermoelectric cooling can make refrigerators 70% more energy efficient, & could enable them to power themselves from their ambient environment

Lugh · edit-2 2 天前

without refrigerant

Yes, they say this does away with the need for compressors or refrigerants.

“This cools by using electrons to move heat through specialized semiconductor materials, eliminating the need for moving parts or challenging coolant liquids.”

just_another_person@lemmy.world · 2 天前

Yes, that’s a Peltier device by definition. The efficiency of them as of now are not great, so the big news here, if reproducible is that they’ve refined a process that gets them up to 70%.

Huge if true.

Samsung and US researchers say a new technology called thermoelectric cooling can make refrigerators 70% more energy efficient, & could enable them to power themselves from their ambient environment

Samsung and US researchers say a new technology called thermoelectric cooling can make refrigerators 70% more energy efficient, & could enable them to power themselves from their ambient environment

Thin film thermoelectric cooling built with semiconductor process technology