UNSW researchers have made a breakthrough for renewable energy production, demonstrating for the first time the ability to produce electricity from radiant infrared heat sources. The emerging technology could be powering our home appliances while we sleep within five years.
A team of researchers from U NSW have developed a new device that has demonstrated the ability to produce electricity from infrared heat sources .
An emerging technology which generates night-time solar energy could be powering our home appliances while we sleep within five years.Radiant infrared heat sources are surfaces which emit infrared radiation to directly heat objects or people, without heating the surrounding air. "What we've done at the moment, could power a wristwatch from your own body heat," Professor Ekins-Daukes said.
"But it does give us a bit of electricity when we're asleep, and we tend to use electricity when we're awake," he said.The team's inspiration for creating "night-time" solar energy was largely fuelled by technologies used in high-end night-vision goggles.
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