1. Tiny Generators turn Waste Heat into Power!!!
By: Deondre Do
&
Audra Dennis

2. The Issue Who: The Earth's Population
What: Scientists have created a generator that can turn waste heat into power
When:September 29, 2010
Where: National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
Why: To turn our wasted heat into something we can actually use

3. Magnitude
This invention will impact people worldwide, but unfortunately only people in the Ukraine and U.S. Currently know about it.
We can now use our wasted heat from things like power plants to use some electric appliances

4. Reliability This article was found in Science Daily (sciencedaily.com)
The staff of Science Daily also wrote this article
The source of the article is the staff of American Institute of Physics
We think this article is biased because the invention is still in the planning and building phase. They still don't know if the generator will work as well as it's expected to, so it seems to lean between 2 sides

5. What we thought...
We chose this article because it seemed very interesting and we wanted to do something about the environment
We thought this article should have included more pictures to better show how the waste heat generator works
It really didn't change our minds about the issue of waste heat, but now we know we can stop it
We now want to know how we can help stop waste heat from getting into our atmosphere just at our home

6. Vocabulary
Thermodynamics: the science concerned with the relations between he at and mechanical energy
Ferroelectric: Referring to a substance that has spontaneous electric polarization
Nanotechnology: A science of devices and materials constructed on very small scales (as small as atoms and molecules)

7. Resources

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