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Sorry, but this article seems to miss some important
points. The Seebeck effect only generates electricity
from temperature differences, and the process
producing electricity will transport Energy from the
hotter to the cooler side. So there is no way of
producing electricity "from the environment" unless
you have a reservoir that is either hotter or colder
than the environment, and in the process of producing
this electricity, the temperature difference will be
reduced and finally go away.
Moreover you will never get more energy out of that
process than the amount that you had to put in in the
beginning to heat or cool your reservoir. Usually it
will be considerably less, as the efficiency of any
such device has theoretical limits. Sadly, for a
device operating at room temperature on a temperature
difference of say 3 degrees centigrade, this upper
limit will be about one percent.

So this sounds like pseudo-scientific gobbledygook,
aimed at pulling money out of investors' pockets:
An undisclosed material, magically transformed by
nuclear fusion? Right from a sixties comic book, I'd
say.

Kind regards,
Wolfgang Ratzka

Posted by: WRatzkaMR   Posted on: 10/26/07 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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