Thermoelectric Power

This ventilator stands on our stove and helps circulate the hot air around the living room.
It is one among the nice applications of so-called Peltier el...
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This ventilator stands on our stove and helps circulate the hot air around the living room.
It is one among the nice applications of so-called Peltier element that generates electricity when heated on one side (here, its stand) and cooled on the other side (the cooler's heat dissipation surfaces above the Peltier element).
Right above the element is an electric motor drawing the generated power to turn the ventilator.

Look it up on eBay etc.! Such elements can also charge your phone... or you could connect more Peltier elements to charge other, serious-capacity batteries! Practical applications are only limited by one's imagination.
All you need is a warming unit where you could exploit the heat difference of, say, 60 degrees Celsius. Even the usual home-heating radiators can be put to power generating purposes, but any wood-burning stove will do.
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