Not all inventions need to involve new discoveries. Two new projects–one which draws power from the air, one which uses heat from servers–show that we can hack our way out of wasteful systems. Fresh research from a couple of different quarters suggests that waste isn’t really waste, and that innovators don’t need to discover new materials or unknown principles in order to innovate.
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With Scavenged Power And Data Furnaces, Finding Energy In Waste