from Hacker News

New stretchable alloy boosts heat pump efficiency 20 times over metals

by bilsbie on 5/28/25, 4:14 PM with 2 comments

  • by blacksqr on 5/28/25, 4:44 PM

    Seems like a worthy breakthrough, but the reported effect only produces temperature differences of 4-5K. They conjecture they can go to 22K deltas in the future.

    Can an effect that small be practically scaled to grid-level usefulness, efficiency notwithstanding?