It's 27:1 .. it might work!
On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 3:40 PM, David L Babcock <olb...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 2/11/2014 9:32 AM, Jed Rothwell wrote: > > Blaze Spinnaker <blazespinna...@gmail.com> wrote: > > http://bettigue.blogspot.de/ >> >> This guy has very cool stirling engines. I wonder how much heat energy >> you need to run these, though perhaps they could be optimized for a Nanor >> device. >> > > A thermoelectric chip would probably be more practical. A Seebeck > calorimeter is a gigantic thermoelectric chip. I recommend this for small > power levels. > > - Jed > > Jed, the miserable 10% efficiency of thermoelectric devices would make > this a near worthless system, even as a table curiosity. The heat-to-heat > COP would have to be *way* over 10:1 > > Ol' Bab >
