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Old 09-10-2019, 05:27 AM   #18 (permalink)
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The only practical use for TEGs in a car would either be:
- stuck to the exhaust behind the last cat with a big flat copper plate on the cool side in the airflow, or
- a 2-way coolant TEG harvesting the heat difference between coolant flowing from the engine to the radiator and the return flow.
I looked into the latter but it isn't cost effective at several $ per W.
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