Hmm.... perhaps but one would think that if the water containers were covered Styrofoam coolers, the temperature differences might accumulate sufficiently to render the signal -- particularly given the distribution represented by the numerous control containers -- quite significant.
Admittedly, I haven't done the arithmetic. On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 2:18 PM, Jed Rothwell <jedrothw...@gmail.com> wrote: > James Bowery <jabow...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> A properly designed Seebeck is a lot more than that. >>> >>> >> With an infinite COP all that's necessary is a room with a bunch of >> similar pots of water, one of which has the infinite COP device in it. >> > > With only one watt I do not think that would work well. Background changes > in temperature would swamp the effect of the 1 W heat source. That was the > problem with the open-air Arata demonstration and others like it I have > seen. > > I am not saying it wouldn't work at all, but the data would be noisy and > people would wonder if it wasn't the effect of the HVAC currents of air > blowing on one dish and not the other, or what-have-you. > > With ~10 W in a small device your method would work. > > - Jed > >
