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- From: wessir@shelley.u.washington.edu (bill the cat)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics
- Subject: possible heat to electricity conversion processes
- Followup-To: poster
- Date: 28 Jan 1993 07:00:32 GMT
- Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
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- Summary: open questions to thermo study
- Keywords: thermodynamics, electricity, heat energy
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- Energy being the purpose, we all use energy in the form of electricity. What
- do we have an abundance of? What do we sometimes spend energy to remove?
- Why heat of course. Does it not seem reasonable that we can extract energy
- from hot air and get cool air as a by-product, or get cool air and energy as
- a by-product. Already we know that we can create electricity by using the
- expanding steam created by adding energy to water to run a generator.
- Improovements can be made in this sytem by replacing water with some other
- fluid which expands at a lower temperature but great inefficiencies still exist
- because of the mechanical generator. What further improovements can be made?
- Are there any other methods of converting heat to electricity? Are there any
- ideas on how to directly convert pressure to electricity? What other direction
- of thought could I go with this?
- wessir
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