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The “spin Seebeck effect” is the rearrangement of the electrons according to their spins when one side of a magnetized nickel-iron rod is being heated. This “spin” effect is based on the original Seebeck effect, discovered in the 1800s by Johann Seebeck, which consists in the phenomenon of voltage apparition between two unequally-heated ends of [...]

Netxtreme, a company providing thermal solutions, has come up with a thermoelectric evaluation kit, called eTEG UPF40 (embedded ThermoElectric Generator). It’s an interesting concept, because of its efficiency (greater than that of standard thermoelectric materials) at converting heat into electricity. 

In a world that tries to save more and more of its resources, BMW wants to make use of the car’s heat to recover some of the energy lost by thermal means. It’s just that they understood this time by being green means putting a radioactive thermoelectric generator in the car’s tailpipe.

Thermoelectric materials transform the temperature difference into electrical energy, or the electrical energy into heat. To utilize it effectively, the material used is required to have high electrical conductivity and a low thermal one. One interesting application is cooling based on heat, by using electrical current as an intermediate. The earlier article about Vatican explained [...]

International Thermoelectric Society website reported that Volkswagen showed a prototype vehicle equipped with a thermoelectric generator, recovering the dissipated heat energy and converting it into electricity. The prototype has been shown at the “Thermoelektrik - Eine Chance Für Die Atomobillindustrie?” meeting held in Berlin in October 2008.