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« on: June 27, 2011, 09:55:03 AM »
http://kstp.com/kstpImages/repository/cs/files/Alloy.pdf
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« Reply #1 on: June 27, 2011, 12:18:45 PM »
Interesting development and apparently  it may be developed quite quickly.
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« Reply #2 on: June 27, 2011, 12:51:24 PM »
However you have to be able to temperature cycle the device which seems to imply a mechanical input. It is in effect a low temperature version of the Curie effect and nobody has ever used that for a generator even at high temperature.
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