University of Utah physicist Professor Orest Symko and five of his doctoral students have developed small devices that can convert waste heat into electricity, harness solar energy, and cool computers ...

eWeek content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More A group of University of Utah physicists are working on a ...

Beginning with the principles of the Stirling engine, SoundEnergy's THEAC thermal acoustic engine takes heat – either industrial waste heat or solar heat – and turns it into powerful cooling without ...

Quantum thermodynamics explores the fundamental principles governing energy conversion at the smallest scales, where quantum effects such as coherence and entanglement significantly influence the ...

Physicists from Trinity College Dublin believe new insights into the behavior of light may offer a new means of solving one ...

The quantum advantage: Coherent superposition in quantum heat engines can enhance power output over classical machines. Credit: iStock Traffic-Analyzer Heat engines have had a huge impact on everyday ...

A heat engine is a device that accepts heat from a high temperature reservoir, T H , performs externalwork, W, and rejects heat to a low temperature reservoir T L. The diagram shows a practical ...

It’s not likely to be ICE’s saving grace, but it’s still pretty cool. For the past hundred years or so, internal combustion has ruled the road. But with EVs gradually stealing away the spotlight, it's ...

Internal combustion engines have long received flack for how wasteful they are. And while you can't argue about how inefficient they may be, the truth is that internal combustion has led the way for ...

There are so many paths we humans are running down in our chase for a greener future it’s extremely hard to keep track of everything. The auto industry is trying to go electric, either by means of ...