No day is complete anymore until some new, miraculous energy technology is announced by some new science publication I never heard of lauds it's potential to save a technofuturistic lifestyle at least long enough to send faster-than-light anti-gravity warp drive starships out to other galaxies far far away to populate the universe with homo sapiens meat packages, thus delaying our extinction past when the Sun goes Red Giant until the Universe either expands and cools down to Absolute Zero, or collapses on itself and restarts with another Big Bang.

Today's new tech is Thermophotovoltaics, which will use Heat to directly produce electricity without the need of a power plant that uses turbines and magnets to do the job after the heat has been converted to work and mechanical energy first.  It would be a truly fabulous tech if the temps it works at were in the range of 0-200C, but sadly to get photons of sufficient energy your material has to be around 1500C, which is fucking hot.  To generate this heat, you would need to use something like an Arc welder.  Materials that can stay solid at temps like this are all ceramics, so I'm not sure exactly how they heat them up to begin with.  Like stories about Fusion power, you're only getting newz of a very small piece of the total problems involved with applying the technology.  They keep dishing out the daily propaganda though, because it reinforces the belief that technology and innovation will provide the infinite energy necessary for an eternity of Happy Motoring.

https://newatlas.com/energy/heat-battery-record-efficiency-grid-scale-energy-storage/

Thermal power cell harvests electricity from heat at record efficiency

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