so I recently read an article about peizoelectric energy and one of the methods they use is heat differentiation between 2 materials to generate electricity. Although I watercool I immediately thought of you crazy TEC people!
I'm just jealous though.
I was wondering if it was possible, or rather how one could convert that radiant heat back into electricity? It must be possible and it seems like we could harness that to help, i dunno, light a light bulb or feed electricity back into the system to help offset electricity costs.
If there was a way to directly pull the energy out of that side and reuse it that would help the cooling as well. Can you kind of reverse a TEC? so one TEC is connected to the die generating heat and one is stacked on top of it collecting the heat and reconverting it? Obviously, I don't understand all the properties involved here but I thought I would bring it up for discussion as it has merit.
I'm just jealous though.
I was wondering if it was possible, or rather how one could convert that radiant heat back into electricity? It must be possible and it seems like we could harness that to help, i dunno, light a light bulb or feed electricity back into the system to help offset electricity costs.
If there was a way to directly pull the energy out of that side and reuse it that would help the cooling as well. Can you kind of reverse a TEC? so one TEC is connected to the die generating heat and one is stacked on top of it collecting the heat and reconverting it? Obviously, I don't understand all the properties involved here but I thought I would bring it up for discussion as it has merit.