Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Mandi are developing novel thermoelectric materials that can efficiently convert heat into electricity.
While solar power has received a lot of attention, other alternative sources are equally promising, even if less known, researchers said.
Generating power from heat, for example, is attractive as there is a lot of heat that is created through human activities in industry, power plants, home appliances and automobiles where most of this heat is lost, they said.
There has been considerable interest in recent years in the development of technologies that can dynamically harvest energy from the environment and convert it to electricity.
