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- noun The study of
thermoelectricity
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Examples
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Currently cars use an alternator to transform mechanical energy into electricity — to recharge the battery, etc. — but thermoelectrics could transform some of that wasted heat instead.
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Conventional lead telluride thermoelectrics convert about 6 percent of the energy in heat into electricity.
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Currently cars use an alternator to transform mechanical energy into electricity — to recharge the battery, etc. — but thermoelectrics could transform some of that wasted heat instead.
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Conventional lead telluride thermoelectrics convert about 6 percent of the energy in heat into electricity.
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Anyway, thermoelectrics could increase the fuel economy of cars, because cars waste a lot of energy as heat — almost all of it, in fact.
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Anyway, thermoelectrics could increase the fuel economy of cars, because cars waste a lot of energy as heat — almost all of it, in fact.
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"We wanted to know what happened if we got rid of the batteries and used thermoelectrics [a semi-conductor chip that produces electricity when one side is hot and the other is cool] instead."
Jonathan Cedar and Alex Drummond's innovation: the BioLite stove 2010
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"The idea of of generating some electric power from the heat of the body is a great idea," said Matthias Ueltzen, an application engineer at Freiburg, Germany-based Micropelt, a developer and manufacturer of thermoelectrics.
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When you get to bigger sizes, then the thermoelectrics are not as efficient.
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Its advanced technology team is developing more efficient materials for thermoelectrics and systems for waste heat recovery and electrical power generation for the automotive market that also have far-reaching applications for consumer products as well as industrial and technology markets.
unknown title 2011
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