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Made a quick rocket stove with bricks.  Put a Peltier cooler on the back and got a fire going.  Measured the current, volts, and watts produced from a single Peltier cooler.  A cooling fan and aluminum heatsink with a 12V portable battery helped.

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Peltier Cooler (also called TEC or Thermo Electric Cooler) - resting against a hot brick

Video of experiment…

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Posted by Earl on January 25, 2010 at 1:24 am under energy, thermoelectric.
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Can a Peltier cooler be used to extract moisture from the air using off-the-grid power?

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Posted by Earl on September 30, 2009 at 12:23 am under energy, fun experiments, thermoelectric.
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