Hi,
On 10-5-2011 19:19, Jed Rothwell wrote:
Jones Beene wrote:
As for the TEG - there is no thermoelectric generator available as a
commercial item which will guaranteed 5% efficiency today. Wiki says the
best is 3%. Even at 3% you get no guarantee, and they fail easily.
Here is a commercial TEG that is 5.4% efficient:
http://ect2007.its.org/system/files/u1/pdf/30.pdf
This group, Zorbas et al., have published some other papers about TEG
that look interesting.
Jed, forget about these TEGs for now, in essence they are
Peltier-elements which are used in opposite order and not efficient at all.
You need something that is able to take full advantage of the Seebeck
effect; sofar I didn't see any of these yet.
Kind regards,
MoB
