What is OmniNerd?

Welcome! OmniNerd's content is generated by you, the reader. Through voting and moderation we strive to highlight the nerdiest of what's around and provide content that's a little more thought provoking than other sites.

Submit New Content

Voting Booth

Choosing Sarah Palin as a Vice Presidential running mate was?

View Results, All Polls
39 votes, 8 comments
1
Nerd-It
+ -

Cool!

Comment comment by Michael on 15 January 2008

It's like a macro scale P/N junction! It almost is photovoltaic.

I see problems with the membrane bringing efficiency down, I'd WAG first run through at 45%, still fantastic.

You are a viewing a subset of a larger discussion.
View Full Discussion
Star This to Save in Your Profile Favorite
Thread parent sort order:
Highest Voted : Lowest Voted : Oldest : Newest
Thread verbosity:
Expand All : Minimize Replies to Comments
1 Nerd-It - +
RE: Cool! by VnutZ :: NR8

It's like a macro scale P/N junction! It almost is photovoltaic.

Sometimes it's amazing when something revolutionary seems so obvious after the fact. I like the fact that it is more or less a solid-state gizmo with no moving parts. That makes it very suitable for low maintenance deployments for geothermal type environments.

Posted 15 January 2008, Hide, Parent, Reply