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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 (www.eenewseurope.com)
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[–] protist@mander.xyz 23 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

Looking forward to a Technology Connections video debunking all these claims

[–] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 11 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

He already did. "Thermoelectic cooling: It's not great."

"There's just one little issue with this technology. It's not very good. Like, at all."

[–] Raiderkev@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago

I was looking at the thumbnail and wondering if it was these. Yeah, imma go with Alec on this one.