Ok well maybe this changes the picture a little bit:
I have a solar panel array mounted on my roof and trunk (they're the flexi kind to they mold to my exterior, its quite nice), so I am running off of battery (alt-less) a lot of the time. If I use my peltiers instead of the ac, effectively I am simply releasing the power requirement from my belt, and placing the additional strain on my panels/deep-cycle grid.
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And if you were to run it off it's own battery power, it would probably be more efficient to just remove the alternator and run the a/c off the belt.
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How so? If I eliminate alt+ac, wouldnt that be better than eliminating just alt? Please clarify.
also, I am a computer guy too and I am familiar with their cpu-cooling applications... I'm not sure if power efficiency comes into play there. I go to college in blacksburg, va up in the appalachian mountains, so it gets pretty cold here during the winter... but im not sure that using the peltiers to generate power during one season is a cost-effective way to go either.