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RE: Cool!
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.
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