Thermoelectric power generation - thermoelectric power generator

[BaseStationZero]

1.21 Gigawatts?!!

[osclarkos]

you have some great stuff here

[LOPEZdJUNGLIST]

are you tellin me this sucker is nuclear ?

[MacGyverinSpace]

@LOPEZdJUNGLIST If you replaced the barbeque lighter with heat from nuclear fission then yes... of course if you used focused light it would be solar...

[dylansmale]

The Power Pot uses these same ceramic plates. Check it out

[deluxeassortment]

@fiestydrake maybe it's fabricated maybe it's not, but these plates are real. We installed them on some machinery to convert excess heat into useable power to make our systems more efficient.

[dubyamoney]

peltier systems are not very efficient one area where it is used and efficiency is of no consequence is cooling the electronics of an ICBM

[bulletproof2353]

@thermoelectrics so do all TEG'S need to have one side cool? cause i thought they were different than a peltier running in reverse,which is what you seem to have there, i want to use 2 or 3 giant fresnel lenses and a sun tracker on my rood in conjunstion with some TEG'S to make power, would they be efficient? or would a stirling engine or a steam turbine be more efficient?

[bnewton81]

@bulletproof2353 I'm pretty sure a fresnel lens would fry the peltier unit. think their max is 130c, but that doesn't mean they couldn't be an excellent source of energy under the right circumstances.

[Faralite]

With an efficiency of what...15%? Useless.

[leerman22]

@Faralite thats the same as solar panels

[Faralite]

@leerman22 which is why solar panels are a joke right now

[UFOMAN618]

thats about what yer ford taurus gets, just a little pricier to mfg really.

[abzosairis]

@TheCameoAfro1 yes you can do that, north pole and sahara desert have a great temperature difference which is ideal for this type of energy source. But ofcourse you're not that stupid to spend millions of $ just to connect wires half way around the globe just to run a electric fan.

[3the4truth]

As higher temps are applied to one side does it cause more electrons from the n-type to move to the p-type or does it just make them move faster?

[fiestydrake]

0:17 the LED lighting up looks fabricated.

[huntleyjr01]

The problem is that you only get a fraction of the energy you put in back out. These devices are not very efficient. However, if you have free source of heat and can regulate it, It may be worth investigating. Too little details and no mention of power output.

[ff29sask]

Beware of tegpower dot com. They ripped me off - charged my credit card and still have not shipped the woodstove generator (nearly a year).

[TheCameoAfro1]

so you telling me if i run a wire with some plate like that from north pole then connect another to sahara desert the there will be electron moving thus i could have an electric fan on the pacific area working?

[SunTrapped]

Okay, now create one that uses cold and produces more than 24 volts and locate that in the polar areas.

[v31h0]

@SunTrapped good thinking :D

[SunTrapped]

@v31h0

Thank you, it's a lot better than heat which uses gas to burn to produce power and locating them in the polar areas give a little insentive to avoid global warming.

[Fuckyousobadly]

@SunTrapped Wuu uuu! That won't do! Won't do just won't do Cold ONLY Stops things... Cold cannot be used to produce energy you know yeah you know? energy cannot be created, it's just like life nothing creates life you know? That thingy just transforms heat into electricity...

[Fuckyousobadly]

@Fuckyousobadly And with that I'm basically saying that cold cannot be moved because it's nothing! It's the absence of heat! It's the Heat that moves and leaves one side of the thingy cold...

[viktorob]

It also acts as a cooler / heater. I attach a heat sink in ne end and apply current, and it will cool one side and heat the other. Wanna see it at work? go to target or walmart and buy one of those coleman portable 12Volts cooler and you will find one of those chips in there.

[garyshouse305]

would it be possible to place your thermo electric semiconductor behind a PV chip in a concentrating panel like the sunseeker or solfucus??

[JonThm]

Turn water into He and O and heat - molecular nuclear fusion. We lose the he to space, and gain H - go get back our water.

[LostInMadness220]

Is this kind of the same as solar panels?

[JonThm]

We can reduc e CO2 by 90% to generate power. 1/9th the fossil fuel burn too!

[AKAtheA]

@JonThm not with "renewable" sources...

[drumsrule786]

why dont we use these commonly to generate electricity?! one side in a fireplace, the other to outside in the winter, we could cut greenhouse gases by a lot!

[suprnovatk]

@drumsrule786 Bingo, you got it. But we cant (In America) cause we would eliminate the need for crude oil drastically and i dont think obama will like that.

[nineactually]

@henrykay01 chyba sie grzybow najadles. xD

[MoskowFreak1111]

put it on laptop cpu, cools cpu and powers battery!

[fahgsdhjh]

Yes because you only get out of it what you put in. Standard candles do not produce enough power for even a TV to run let alone a whole street. The efficiency of the module would increase but not by 100,000 times... By your thinking, you are saying that the modules are at most .001% efficient...

[mikeccuk2006]

imagine if someone could make those semiconductor pellets at nanometre levels like in a computer processor. The amount of electricity created would be up to 100000 times more and imagine if these pellets are 32nm each we can power a whole street from the heat of a candle.

Am I wrong?

[domyaska]

thanks a lot

[Sniper45mm]

hi I was wondering, what kind of materials are the N and P semiconductors? and does the size of the pellets matters to genetare electricty? and what kind of ceramic do you used?

thanks

[BerserkerEos]

sry am quit noob here, but can any one explain to me what is that wite thing wich give electrecity by heating it

[majorpun]

a peltier cell or a thermoelectric cell

[slackbr]

@BerserkerEos Google for Peltier... I can't give more details because my english is not good.

[afthefragile]

Is theromoelectric generator better than a thermocouple??

[IMunchGlass]

a thermocouple *IS* a thermoelectric generator

[xdaemoon]

Anyone have an idea, how to integrate this technology with the thermos technology?

I mean, how to make a longer heat source for the thermoelectric generator.

[definitionofis]

That won't work. The thermoelectric generator works by transferring the heat to the other side.

It stops working when the other side gets hot. You have to put a heat sink on the other side to remove the heat to keep it working.