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Anonymous Fri 17 Jul 18:03:11 2020 No.11910615 View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>11910695 >>11910737 >>11910830 >>11910909

Why can't we just convert heat into electricity directly?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 17 Jul 2020 18:20:44 No.11910663 Report

Quoted By: >>11910683

You mean like with a turbine?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 17 Jul 2020 18:26:55 No.11910683 Report

Quoted By: >>11910881

>>11910663
I mean like a thermoelectric generator, but without complete dogshit efficiency

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 17 Jul 2020 18:31:10 No.11910695 Report

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>>11910615
You mean like a thermocouple?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 17 Jul 2020 18:41:58 No.11910737 Report

Quoted By: >>11910784

>>11910615
carnot says that you need as high a temperature difference as possible, but thermoelectrics require semiconductors which don't semiconduct past a certain temperature.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 17 Jul 2020 18:53:13 No.11910784 Report

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>>11910737
2800K semiconductors when?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 17 Jul 2020 19:04:10 No.11910830 Report

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>>11910615
We can, I know how

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 17 Jul 2020 19:16:25 No.11910881 Report

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>>11910683
Just mess around with a thermocouple and pressure variations. Efficiency skyrockets.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 17 Jul 2020 19:24:56 No.11910909 Report

Quoted By: >>11910989

>>11910615
why yuo ask anon?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 17 Jul 2020 19:50:20 No.11910989 Report

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>>11910909
You know very well why, CIA negro

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