Thermoelectric power

[Crazybrainman]

Been watching videos on youtube showing heat made from peltier to generate power why not try makeing power by making a aluminum or better metal for the heat spreader and connet wires to it and the test and see with a water loop or a aio or even some of your cooling experiments what it would or could produce in the form of electricity. 

And maybe something similar with the gpu could be done to produce more energy to maybe see if there is a way we could make things more power effecient that way

[BrandonLatzig]

Hecking what so, first. Teg are really really really ineffecient, like 5-8 percent. 2 how much heat do you think you need to make meaningful power?

[starsmine]

3 hours ago, Crazybrainman said:

Been watching videos on youtube showing heat made from peltier to generate power why not try makeing power by making a aluminum or better metal for the heat spreader and connet wires to it and the test and see with a water loop or a aio or even some of your cooling experiments what it would or could produce in the form of electricity. 

And maybe something similar with the gpu could be done to produce more energy to maybe see if there is a way we could make things more power effecient that way

So... what?
You want to put in 500W into a peltier heater, and dump that heat into a heat engine and make 5W?

[BrandonLatzig]

1 hour ago, starsmine said:

So... what?
You want to put in 500W into a peltier heater, and dump that heat into a heat engine and make 5W?

More like 25watts, but semantics

[HorseBattery]

If you want free power install some solar panels or a micro wind turbine.

[Thaldor]

If it would be that profitable and easy, we would burn garbage to heat TEGs instead of boiling water and using steam to run turbines (even the most modern power plants basicly are using steam to run turbines that generate electricity, yes, even the nuclear power plants use the heat of the fission reaction to boil water though very much simplified).