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Old 09-15-2013, 09:04 PM   #2 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Mutt_78 View Post
Well, I was recently reading an f1technical.com article about TERS introduction into the upcoming season, and that got me thinking... How would this work? I've been wracking my brain as to how you can use heat to make energy, ie bi-metallic thermal generators, and that's really all I'm coming up with. OPEN DISCUSSION: how else can you accomplish this? Is there a practical ecomodding(DIY) approach you've been pondering? Lets flesh this out a bit.
From what I have read, peltiers would work, but they would be terribly cost inefficient.
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