Electricity produced soon... thanks to the exhaust gas!

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What if that's the way to make thermal cars a little less polluting? U.S. researchers are working on a device capable of producing electricity from exhaust gases. The most surprising? It seems to be working! Exhaust gases could produce electricity Pennsylvania researchers have just developed an innovative device capable of converting heat from exhaust gases to electricity, thus exploiting a previously lost energy source. This technological advan…

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Researchers have developed a small component that can be attached to the exhaust of cars and generates electricity from the exhaust gases. The electrical energy is developed by a thermoelectric generator that can generate electricity from temperature gradients. There is already a prototype that can generate about 40 watts of electrical power from the exhaust gases of a car. So far, the heat from exhaust gases is unused. This could change in the …