{"id":142439,"date":"2025-12-16T08:00:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T08:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=142439"},"modified":"2025-12-16T08:00:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T08:00:13","slug":"chinas-ultra-hot-heat-pump-breakthrough-paves-way-for-melting-ore-with-sunlight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=142439","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s ultra-hot heat pump breakthrough paves way for melting ore with sunlight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostFor over a century, the dream of efficiently concentrating low-grade heat into high-temperature industrial energy has been constrained by a stubborn ceiling: 200 degrees Celsius (392 degrees Fahrenheit).<br \/>\nNow, a team from China has shattered that temperature limit. Using a revolutionary heat pump with no moving parts, they achieved an output of 270 degrees with a 145-degree heat source to drive the cycle.<br \/>\nDeveloped by a team led by Luo Ercang at the Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry of&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3336593\/chinas-ultra-hot-heat-pump-breakthrough-paves-way-melting-ore-sunlight?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostFor over a century, the dream of efficiently concentrating low-grade heat into high-temperature industrial energy has been constrained by a stubborn ceiling: 200 degrees&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142439"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=142439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=142439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=142439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=142439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}