How to treat heat like light

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Interesting; I wish the news has some more details on specific numbers e.g. efficiency.

From my perspective such concept will require for commercialization a strong application driver or killer application, which is something I did not get a clear picture here.

Yeah, killer application: Heat lasers

sadly the kiler app most will embrace will probably be a HD cylone toaster.

But seriousness back ont eh table I suspect this could have a lot of uses in the medical and production market.

Are they talking about conducted heat, rather than radiated heat (which is light)?

Well, neither. Take a look at this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinetic_theory_of_solids.

I think they see the "vibration" as some sort of wave ( with the properties as such ) and process it similarly to light wave.

Yes, they are talking about conducting heat, which is atomic vibrations (not light)

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