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Originally Posted by serialk11r
That 136 watts is how much power you can pump into it to make it act as a horrendously bad heat pump. If you wired it in reverse, you'd probably see only a few watts come out.
The 62x62 one you linked is 180C max temperature, again, useless. It'll produce at best a few watts.
Efficiency is a concern because loading the cooling system significantly will be a problem.
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i think were still ok:
even if what you write is true, were still ok cuz even worst case scenario lets say you only get 20% of it's capacity in electricity when the unit is heated (and its probably substantially better then that) then if you had 20-25 of them then you'd get 540-675 watts of power which is enough to replace the alternator on a small vehicle any day.
at $5 a piece that would run you $100-$125 plus a way to install them.
I'd say put half of them on the coolant and half on the exhaust
the trick would be getting them the proper distance away from the exhaust pipe so they dont fry.
I welcome all feedback. lets remember: alt delete can equal 10-12% gain in mileage, so lets try to get an idea how to make an idea work for us