Researcher manipulates micro-scale phenomena to optimize energy conversion devices
Thursday, May 29, 2014 - 07:00
in Physics & Chemistry
You can quickly run out of fingers and toes counting the many ways we waste energy. Take our sewage systems, for example: The energetic content of wastewater is about 10 times the amount of energy it takes to process it. In the U.S., we spend 3 percent of our energy on processing wastewater, which means the equivalent of some 30 percent of our energy is simply draining away.