Power directly from heat?

[Etownlax]

Hello all,

This might not be true OU power(in a sense though it is 'cause it would last forever) but I've been pondering this alot lately.

Can heat be transfered directly into a different kind of energy? If effect it would "cool" the heat source. Energy can be converted but not destroyed. Heat is only a form of energy. I'm not talking about taking a "cold" substance and a "hot" substance and useing the temperature diffence but rather the energy stored in the electrons. Electrons are what create this "heat" which is rather just electrons in a higher orbit because they contain more energy.

Is there anyway of transfering this energy into something usable?

-Randy

[AlaskaStar]