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Any effeciency numbers? Mindful how ineffeceint peltiers are and this reads like it is nothing new beyond adding liquid metal heat-pipes and an array of lots o
by Zenst 5y ago
Any effeciency numbers? Mindful how ineffeceint peltiers are and this reads like it is nothing new beyond adding liquid metal heat-pipes and an array of lots of them so you can wrap around a non-flat surface more easily.
Also - not aware of many hot pipes of waste heat. beyond some power stations and then they already use that heat for things like heating green houses and other initiatives.
Heck even my fridge and freezer's waste heat (probably best source in a home) is only waste in the summer, otherwise is passively warms my home. Then you have heat exchanges.
So really would love to see the numbers and the waste heat they are on about and compared to existing less technical solutions - like using it to heat a greenhouse.
- jacquesm 5y agoSteel plants, aluminum plants, oil refineries, glass manufacture. All of these create vast amounts of waste heat.
- IshKebab 5y ago> Any effeciency numbers? Efficiency is pretty irrelevant because the total amount of power available is tiny. The only use cases for this are things like remote pipe monitoring sensors. Nobody is going to use this to generate meaningful amounts of power.