this post was submitted on 21 May 2025
37 points (68.3% liked)

Futurology

2956 readers
47 users here now

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] marius@feddit.org 95 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

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 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] SchizoDenji@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

It's a big problem with reddit like forums where the comments are highlighted and much more densely presented than the article itself.

Older forums avoided this (unintentionally) by not having any sorting on replies and keeping the density of replies, low.

[–] essell@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Hey, it works for the Voyager Space probes! 😏