Refrigerators, boilers, and even lightbulbs continually dump heat into their surroundings. This “waste heat” could—in theory—be turned into electricity, as it is sometimes done with power plants, automobile engines, and other high-heat sources. The problem: These “low-grade” sources give off too little heat for current technology to do the conversion well.

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