https://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-03/09/230-percent-efficient-leds
MIT physicists have managed to build a light-emitting diode that has an electrical efficiency of more than 100 percent. When it gets more than 100 percent electrically-efficient, it begins to cool down, stealing energy from its environment to convert into more photons.
Get a good look of it now, you’ll probably never hear about it again.
am I to understand that it absorbs heat to create light? so it’s like cheap air conditioning as well?
Maybe if your entire house was made out of it.
^that’s actually a cool idea
I imagine it would be also very expensive though
It could mean that someday computers could be able to have diodes in them that both supply power to the computer & cool it, which would eliminate the need for cooling systems. Probably cancelling itself out. It would also mean the end to electric bills, batteries, fuel & much more.
The only thing that wasn’t mentioned in the article was that the LED needed to be heated to 138°C / 280.4°F before the effect would work. I’ve been one of those free-energy “conspiracy nuts” for years now & it’s refreshing to see some mainstream coverage.
I saw this. Apparently, for it to work properly the way they say it does, they had to heat it to a pretty high temperature.
Sounds very impressive, although it’ll probably get shut down like the electric car has been.
But, say that you have a computer that runs off of these things. I don’t think it would be too much of a problem to heat them before you turn your computer on, so I don’t think that’s a problem. Like you said, though, it most likely won’t go anywhere at the moment because the world is still stuck in what ways we get energy from now and people that make money from it would rather keep making money from it than, you know, have a futuristic source of power :retard: .
at last! A computer that runs off a camp fire!
Li-Po battery powered cars are all over the mainstream media, I dunno what you are talking about.
The big problems with electric cars on the market today is that they deliberately make them look like ass so nobody would want to buy them.
I think it has more to do with the price tag, and that fact that a half-ton battery pack only gets you a couple hundred miles, wears out in less than a decade, and costs $5,000+ to replace.
and you’re still most likely burning coal to power your car
edit: oh yeah, and there’s the fire hazard and the fact that they can shut down or even brick for no apparent reason
Who determines the price tag again? Oh yeah, it’s the same people who want it to fail.
You’re probably still burning coal. I’m sure there are plenty of gas companies that sell coal, so they wouldn’t have a problem with that. Their problem however is that it’s not the only way for somebody to generate electricity. Can’t exactly say the same about petroleum.
Is whatever car model you’re talking about made by a big-name car company?
Not to mention, big car companies snatch up efficient/cheap electric car patents (amongst other cool technologies) and then just let them waste away in a filing cabinet somewhere so they don’t have that future competition. It’s pretty disgusting.
I’m actually kind of waiting for there to be no more gasoline to use just to see what ends up happening.
wow really? you don’t understand the concept of cost? also, what is this ‘want it to fail’ conspiracy theory based on
but it’s by far the cheapest, if you can grasp that concept, and most predominant; and will be for a long time until reserves start to dwindle
more than one
Dark Ages.
Machines are gonna fail and the system’s gonna fail. Then, survival. Who has the ability to survive. That’s the game; survive.
Silly people. This is far too efficient to invest in. What about the jawbs in the oil and gas industry. Think of the children.
^lol, bots are getting smuttier
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