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agumonkey on Sept 5, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Efficient Air-Conditioning Beams Heat into Space

Pretty neat idea.

This reminds me of sun free photovoltaics. Somehow people managed to transform heat into coherent IR waves that could be converted by the usual PV cells.

captainpete on Sept 5, 2017 [–]

Thermophotovoltaics :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermophotovoltaic

agumonkey on Sept 5, 2017 | [–]

Yes this. For a reason I remember an article "sun free photovoltaics" hence my comment. But I can't find it again on this page.. odd. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun-free_photovoltaics

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