Calling Dr. Epps ... please give this to us in untreatable examples. Bite size and digestible.
untreatable = understandable, sorry.
So now turning the waste heat on internal combustion engines will boost their efficiency into a new realm. Environmentalists aren’t going to like this.
I suspect they will ban it soon.
Peltier-Seebeck effects are opposite side of the same coin - a long-understood property for converting heat into electricity or electricity into the absence of heat (cooling). Used in everyday products like the valve in gas appliances or the type of cooler that runs on 12 volts.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermoelectric_effect
Since well over half of the gas we burn in our cars turns into waste in the form of heat, this could be significant. Anything that improves the efficiency of thermoelectric materials is cool...or the opposite.