seebeck thermoelectric converter Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Sat, 31 Jan 2015 17:03:11 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Highly Mismatched Alloys – Solution for Really Efficient Thermoelectrics https://www.greenoptimistic.com/highly-mismatched-alloys-solution-for-really-efficient-thermoelectrics-20100128/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/highly-mismatched-alloys-solution-for-really-efficient-thermoelectrics-20100128/#comments Thu, 28 Jan 2010 14:24:04 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=6408 Thermoelectric devices convert heat into electricity, and are of great use in recovering wasted heat from thermal engines and transforming it into electricity, thus increasing the engine's overall efficiency, mostly when used in hybrid cars, who have high capacity onboard batteries.

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/highly-mismatched-alloys-solution-for-really-efficient-thermoelectrics-20100128/feed/ 1 6408 New Thermoelectric Device Produces 5W/cm², Could Save Laptop Batteries https://www.greenoptimistic.com/netxtreme-eteg-thermoelectric-20081222/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/netxtreme-eteg-thermoelectric-20081222/#respond Sun, 21 Dec 2008 21:18:26 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=1408 Netxtreme, a company providing thermal solutions, has come up with a thermoelectric evaluation kit, called eTEG UPF40 (embedded ThermoElectric Generator). It's an interesting concept, because of its efficiency (greater than that of standard thermoelectric materials) at converting heat into electricity.

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