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Subject: Re: Thermoelectricity
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Date: Fri, 3-Apr-87 13:33:24 EST
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Posted: Fri Apr  3 13:33:24 1987
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In article <479@cblpe.UUCP>, jwd@cblpe.UUCP (Joe Darnell) writes:
> What is needed is
> a material which has good electrical conductivity (resistance causes losses)
> and poor thermal conductivity so that a high temperature difference can be
> maintained.  This is like having your cake and eating it to!

> At the time, it was hoped that a breakthrough in materials would make thermo-
> electricity competitive. That hope was never achieved. Thermoelectric cooling

Any speculations about all the exciting things going on in superconductivity
these days- the materials are thermal insulators, aren't they? Should be some
time before they reach >> room temperature, however!

Ali Shaik   ihnp4!philabs!ams