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From: ewiles@netxcom.UUCP (Edwin Wiles)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Thermoelectric Generators
Message-ID: <351@netxcom.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 9-Mar-87 09:36:50 EST
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Posted: Mon Mar  9 09:36:50 1987
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Summary: Any designed for solar?

In article <3086@watdcsu.UUCP> sgcpal@watdcsu.UUCP (P.A.ul Layman [EE-Device Physics]) writes:
>After consulting my undergrad text on the subject I found a picture of
>such a device which was (maybe still) manufactured by 3M.  It produced
>200mW at 9V.  It could run for 24 hrs on a tank of fuel (kerosene) that looks
>like the one on a standard coleman lattern.  It goes on to say that the
>thermocouples(I count 6) were hermentically sealed.  Therefore expensive?

All the talk about thermoelectric generators that I've seen have all stated
that the devices worked off of either chemically generated heat, or by burning
some fossil fuel.  It would seem that these devices are idealy suited for use
in solar production of electricity.  Has any work been done?  Are there any
models that work with solar heat?  How efficient are they?  Cost effective?

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