Elastocaloric heating and cooling. Another topic for @psychicwarrior.

Elastocaloric material heats up when exposed to a mechanical force field (F). When this heat is released into the environment and the force field is removed, the material supercools and extracts the same amount of heat from the environment again. The effect is reversible.

www.ipm.fraunhofer.de/.../elastocaloric-systems.html

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  • Does look interesting, thanks, I hadn't come across this before. From the various papers I can see it does look like it's at the university research lab stage at the moment (but then so were lasers, LEDs and fibreoptic cables etc etc etc once upon a time...)

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  • Does look interesting, thanks, I hadn't come across this before. From the various papers I can see it does look like it's at the university research lab stage at the moment (but then so were lasers, LEDs and fibreoptic cables etc etc etc once upon a time...)

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