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 New MIT Thermoelectric Device Pushes Efficiency to Its Theoretical Limit https://www.greenoptimistic.com/quantum-dot-thermoelectric-20091119/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/quantum-dot-thermoelectric-20091119/#comments Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:45:05 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=5413 The Carnot Limit, calculated in the 19th century, demonstrates and sets the maximum efficiency that any device can achieve in converting heat into work. Theoretically and practically, you can't go over that limit. So, the devices constructed up to now only get a tenth of Carnot's limit.

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/quantum-dot-thermoelectric-20091119/feed/ 1 5413 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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