To understand how thermoelectrics generate the electricity from a temperature difference we have to know a bit about how electrons move in a metal. Metals are good conductors because electrons can move freely within them, similar to a fluid in a pipe. Imagine you have a pipe full of
water and you raise one end, what happens? The water will flow down the pipe from the high end to the low end. This is because when you raised the pipe you increased the potential
energy and the water wants to flow downhill. In a thermoelectric material the same thing happens to the fluid-like electrons when you heat it! so half of the HOMEMADE thermoelecrtic generator needs to be cold and yhe ither half can go into your thermal mass battery or in the flu or anywhere theres heat! this would be grest in colder arctic placed were in the summer we have permanently frozen ground! we also have sunlight at 3 am so
solar is no problem there! but in the winter when the
RMH is roaring how do we produce green energy? ill keep you all up to date but i want to give this a shot snd see uf i can generate
enough power to start a node if anyone else wants to try please post homemade thermoelectric generators here this could be a lot of fun and a cheap way to get some watts for
lights or fridge or whatever but im going to aim high and try to run some complex powerful computers
ill buy some stuff im looking for 80w generator to charge a battery bank so i could run some lights and a small computer while the stove not running
