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Samsung and US researchers say a new technology called thermoelectric cooling can make refrigerators 70% more energy efficient, & could enable them to power themselves from their ambient environment (www.eenewseurope.com)
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[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

Yes, that's a Peltier device by definition. The efficiency of them as of now are not great, so the big news here, if reproducible is that they've refined a process that gets them up to 70%.

Huge if true.