Contact: Orest Symko
orest@physics.utah.edu
801-581-6132
University of Utah

Sound-Producing Heat Engine

Caption: University of Utah physicist Orest Symko holds a match to a small heat engine that produces a high-pitched tone by converting heat into sound. Symko's research team is combining such heat engines with existing technology that turns sound into electricity, resulting in devices that can harness solar energy in a new way, cool computers and other elec

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