Heat-to-Power Technology and Thermoelectrics: Powering the Future of Wearables, Homes, Vehicles, and More

Introduction: From Energy Loss to Distributed Power Infrastructure For over a century, waste heat has been treated as an unavoidable inefficiency—an inevitable byproduct of engines, electronics, and industrial systems. Today, that assumption is being fundamentally challenged. As global energy demand accelerates alongside the expansion of artificial intelligence, data centers, electrified transport, and distributed electronics, waste…