BMW turns to "rocket scientists" for next-generation heat-recovery thermoelectrics

BMW recently announced that it is trying to take thermoelectric (TE) technology originally developed at NASA for converting waste heat from radioactive materials and adapt it to capture waste heat from the automaker's engines. BMW's system uses a standard TE material, bismuth telluride (BiTe), in it...

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