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Re: Alternate Power Source

Vaughan Pratt wrote:
> 
> From: Mark Willis <>
> >On a really cold day, I'd worry about hypothermia, is all I can say
> >just now (It's been a DAY!)  You're converting heat flow to power, I
> >don't know how efficiently, on days way below 65 degrees F if you're
> >pulling lots of heat out of some people they could freeze, others would
> >be happy to be cool at last <G>
> 
> Sounds backwards to me.  If you're trying to tap the heat flow from a
> hot body to a cool environment, won't that hinder the flow rather than
> help it, leaving you hotter rather than cooler?  If it was the other way
> round you could build a refrigerator that produced electricity instead
> of consuming it, now that would be way cool (literally :).
> 
> Vaughan

  TODAY, I have no clues, I'm still upright but only for a while <G>

  I think that it's the temperature differential that causes the (low
voltage, highish current?) thermocouple array to generate power - all
those wires should conduct SOME heat, I'd think - Headache today
precludes intelligent thought, though.

  So I guess it'd be smart to ask someone else, today.  I need a good
night's rest!

  Mark

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