Convert Attic Heat Into Energy

An international team of scientists has figured out how to capture heat and turn it into electricity.

Convert attic heat into energy.

Cold air from an attic will seep down into the home whereas warm air from the home may escape by rising through the attic. This is heat transferred through electromagnetic radiation such as the sun s photons basically the sun heats your attic and house up as it travels across the sky. Physicists developed small devices that turn heat into sound and then into electricity. While it does help to reduce the heat in your attic putting these fans in your attic costs more because of the loss of conditioned air.

But by adding powered attic fans you will draw more air into the attic. One of the most effective ways to convert your attic space into a spare bedroom is to remove the insulation from the floor and add insulation to the attic ceiling. Once the solar radiation is absorbed some of the heat still gets ejected to the outside but much of it conducts downward through the roofing materials and roof deck. Essentially you re bringing the attic into the rest of the house.

A new alloy with unique properties can convert heat directly into electricity according to researchers at the university of minnesota. There it radiates down into the attic heating up the insulation the framing the ductwork and the boxes of christmas tree ornaments. This isolates the attic from the rest of the home which means the attic isn t part of the conditioned envelope. The air you lose from the attic is then drawn into your home from the outside which will cause your cooling bill to go up.

If you have a lot of heat then you can do what power plants do you can use the heat to generate steam and use the steam to spin a turbine the turbine can drive a generator which produces electricity this setup is very common but it requires a fair amount of equipment and space. Radiant energy travels in a straight. The discovery published last week in the journal science advances could create more efficient energy generation from heat in things like car exhaust interplanetary space probes and industrial processes. The alloy a multiferroic composite of nickel cobalt.