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Magic? Sounds like it... two way... add heat get electricity, add electricity get cooling. Sounds like magic to me.
Arthur C. Clarke's Third Law:
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
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2 posted on
11/21/2006 6:08:41 PM PST by
Swordmaker
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To: Swordmaker
3 posted on
11/21/2006 6:11:29 PM PST by
Swordmaker
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5 posted on
11/21/2006 6:51:58 PM PST by
SunkenCiv
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To: Swordmaker
The chip is based on the principles of thermionic energy conversion whereby the energy of a hot metal over comes the electrostatic forces holding electrons to its surface. These free electrons then pass across a vacuum to a cold metal and in the process create an electronic charge that can be harnessed.
Sounds like the cathode heater on a vacuum tube to me.
7 posted on
11/21/2006 11:48:57 PM PST by
ThePythonicCow
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To: Swordmaker
From the
ENECO web site:
THE SCIENCEENECO's technology is based on the use of thermal diodes, which have no moving parts and convert heat directly into electricity. The concept is drawn from two established direct energy conversion technologies, thermoelectric energy conversion and thermionic energy conversion.
- Thermoelectric energy conversion is based on Peltier and Seebeck effects, which appear when a thermal gradient is applied across a plate of material. Thermoelectric converters are convenient but inefficient. Thermoelectric activity varies greatly from one material to another, but typical commercial thermoelectric converters operate with efficiencies less than 6%.
- Thermionic energy conversion works in the manner shown schematically in Figure 1.
A thermionic converter consists of a heated plate, Metal 1, a cooled plate, Metal 2, a vacuum gap separating the plates, and an external electric circuit, which is open in the figure.
8 posted on
11/21/2006 11:52:31 PM PST by
ThePythonicCow
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To: Swordmaker
OK, so how much of the heat from the CPU can be converted to electricity and recycled to power the computer?
10 posted on
11/22/2006 9:53:31 AM PST by
AZLiberty
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