By Selwyn Duke

Could you imagine a laptop battery that lasted for 500 hours? How
about an electric car that boasts a range many times that of a gasoline
vehicle? For that matter, think about environmental sensors that could
be scattered into the air like dust and collect data. While the last
thing might not exactly be what you want for Christmas, a breakthrough
in energy production made by MIT researchers could make such technology a
reality during the next few years.

The process, dubbed “thermopower waves” by its discoverer, MIT’s Dr.
Michael Strano, does nothing less than open up “a new area of energy
research, which is rare,” says the scientist. MSNBC’s Michelle Bryner
describes the phenomenon and its applications in brief, writing:

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