TY - JOUR
KW - Invited
AU - Cronin Vining
AB - Despite recent advances, thermoelectric energy conversion will never be as efficient as steam engines. That means thermoelectrics will remain limited to applications served poorly or not at all by existing technology. Bad news for thermoelectricians, but the climate crisis requires that we face bad news head on.
BT - Nature Materials
DA - 2009///
DO - 10.1038/nmat2361
IS - 2
LA - eng
N2 - Despite recent advances, thermoelectric energy conversion will never be as efficient as steam engines. That means thermoelectrics will remain limited to applications served poorly or not at all by existing technology. Bad news for thermoelectricians, but the climate crisis requires that we face bad news head on.
PY - 2009
SP - 83
EP - 85
EP - 
T2 - Nature Materials
TI - An inconvenient truth about thermoelectrics
UR - http://cvining.com/system/files/articles/vining/Vining-Nature-2009.pdf
VL - 8
ER -