This technology, with its innovative rapid thermal exchange capability, offers a novel new option for kW power generation in environments with thermal variation as low as 10 degrees Celsius in a much more compact and lower weight package than other similar technologies at present. Applications exist not only for space and planetary surface environments but also numerous ground based uses on Earth. This kind of generator can be scaled-down for use within MEMS devices, or scaled-up for use in municipal power plants capable of producing power from naturally occurring thermal sources, and sized in between to support NASA planetary and Exploration missions.
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