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| May 4, 2022 at 13:36 | answer | added | Tiger Guy | timeline score: 2 | |
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| May 2, 2022 at 21:56 | comment | added | DKNguyen | Thermoelectric generators are in general not efficient at all. Generally 5% or less. They are used because they are simple and reliable. "Could it produce more energy than it consumes?" No. The energy used to form the fuel compounds counts as part of the input energy. Unless you dig up or extract all those chemicals straight up from nature like with oil and coal. And doing that needs to take less energy than what you get out of it which it won't because <5% efficiency. But in that case you're better off just digging oil and coal out of the ground because burning it as much more efficient. | |
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| S May 2, 2022 at 21:37 | history | asked | Caleb Saunders | CC BY-SA 4.0 |