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@futurology.today · 13 days ago

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

marius@feddit.org · 13 days ago

The post headline is BS. It’s 70% more efficient than other thermoelectric materials. Not compared to current compressor fridges. Also no device ever can be powered by its ambient temperature, because thermodynamics says no

huppakee@lemm.ee · edit-2 13 days ago

Thanks it got me confused, seemed so good that it had to be false but the title was also not very clickbaity.

Edit: opened the article anyway, this is the actual title above the article: Thin film thermoelectric cooling built with semiconductor process technology

PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat · 13 days ago

I think the userbase of a community being clueless enough to tend to upvote anything vaguely good-sounding is a big factor in me eventually deciding to unsubscribe from that community. It doesn’t seem like it is a fixable problem once it develops.