X-Message-Number: 20696 From: Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2002 16:35:19 EST Subject: Re: Thermopiles --part1_61.2b21e1df.2b38db97_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From Robert Ettinger: > More than 40 years ago I envisioned > using thermopiles for cryonics organizations to generate their own energy > and > thus a higher degree of independence. > What is the conversion efficiency of these systems? Many years ago I have worked with that kind of device, but the energy conversion was quite poor. Amateur astronomers use the Peletier effect to cool down CCD cameras, but the requested current intensity is very large. Yvan Bozzonetti. --part1_61.2b21e1df.2b38db97_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" [ AUTOMATICALLY SKIPPING HTML ENCODING! ] Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=20696