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October 20th 18, 11:15 PM posted to rec.bicycles.tech
Jeff Liebermann
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those darned NYC cyclists again
On Sat, 20 Oct 2018 13:39:27 -0700 (PDT),
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Running on body heat would give you sort of unlimited run time.
There are problems trying to utilize body heat. The worst is the lack
of an easy cold junction. In order to produce electricity, one needs
a temperature DIFFERENCE. If the body is the warm junction, where's
the cold junction? Simply heating something will work if you use a
thermocouple, but the efficiency is very low and little power will be
produced. For example, using the ambient air as a cold junction will
produce a fabulous 0.3 microwatts with this contrivance:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4368596/Incredible-powercell-converts-BODY-HEAT-electricity.html
There are other ways that seem to be better:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_harvesting
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