Generate electricity from your body heat

A demo showing a seebeck thermoelectric unit generating electricity. The seebeck makes more and more power as its top side is heated.

This video is part of our instructable, "Charge Your Cellphone using Wasted Heat". View the rest of it at http://www.instructables.com/id/Charge-Your-Cellphone-Using-Wasted-Heat/

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[ccraig412]

Wow... How Efficient! 5 volts at 735 Degrees... -_-

[odi22865]

totaly love the post-it's :D

[chandradarsan]

nice video ......

if it is possible to charge cellphones with our body heat..

[TOOLER98]

Can it work on torchlight also?

[jayejayeee]

very interesting video thanks

[tridentvii]

how to make it?????

[simysimss]

interesting video and very informative

[fairyheli2]

@danich45 can't power an electric blanket with a candle, or a heater, maybe you could power those with a gas cooker, but you are better off just using a gas heater, candle fumes are quite toxic

[acnfanmanin]

That would be great for computers so if the computer gets hot it can make power for a fan using that device.

[permofit]

wow 36 amps is that right ?

[ccraig412]

@minimichelson Yeah true, but the vehicle already has an alternator that generates about 60 amps for the vehicle. This would be no help. However, it would be good if you could mount them on your roof on heat panels of some sort.. Otherwise, your alternator doesn't really have an impact on fuel economy. But I get what you mean though.

[minimichelson]

@ccraig412 Well they are connectable in Series & Parallel & considering that engine exhaust leaves the engine at aprox 1200F and is simply wasted thus 5+v is better than 0v