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That... is the great breakthrough that many people were waiting for in thermoelectric generation. Tell me it can be easily manufactured and we have a winner. T
by Iv 10y ago
That... is the great breakthrough that many people were waiting for in thermoelectric generation.
Tell me it can be easily manufactured and we have a winner. This has the potential of making solid state thermal plants, where no moving parts would be required to transform heat into electricity.
- simcop2387 10y agoEven if it's not particularly easy to manufacture it would still be massively beneficial to a lot of generator designs. We already do some crazy stuff to make single metallic crystal turbine fins for jets, I could see something similarly exotic in manufacturing being useful for power plants even if it costs 10x-50x more than the traditional parts given what this material can enable.
- 2sk21 10y agoWould it be possible to use such a thermo-electric generator as a heat sink for a chip?
- grhmc 10y agoNo, as you need to be removing heat from the hot side anyway.
- Iv 10y agoDepends what you mean. If you want to use it for power generation then you can but it is probably a bad idea: it gives resistance to the heat flow. However, the thermoelectric effect is used by overclockers but on reverse : they consume energy to move heat from the CPU to a radiator. It is called a Peltier cell.
- zkhalique 10y agoHow about its use in computer chips? Maybe all those fans and heat sinks won't be needed.
- ckarmann 10y agoI think it's the other way around: the chips are producing heat constantly and you want that heat to dissipate as quickly as possible, so it's not the right place to put a thermal insulator.