Putting a cork in energy storage for vintage heat.
That’s what the guys at MIT claim, a blend of carbon nanotubes, latticed with something better than ruthenium (an expensive component with similar results), that being azobenzene – it’s all about storing energy in a chemical bond for later heat applications, rather than converting the energy to heat and insulating it to retain for later.
News here, and rub your hands warm with the paper.
Newshounds are hailing it as the new cheap heat that doesn’t degrade after countless hours recycled in the same apparatus. Not sure I recall all my physics training but you know what I’m getting at. Entropy, external conditions, abuse, you name it. Still, looking at the nearest-neighbor high frequency interaction of juxtipose molecules in this arrangement, one can easily get excited with this stuff.
Oh, don’t pay for the academic material through the web link above, download here for free!
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Hmmm, could this work?
The newshounds are apt to “light it up” in a nice, uneducated way, ergo, our recent discussion on the technical specifications of the NBN. Of course, I’m still looking for something other than the Atomic intro article, thats for sure!
But to think, one could rub their hands warm with the paper, then store up that heat energy without insulation. Ummm, my stove is out of order? ^.~