Who knows about - Thermoelectrics, Heat Sinks, Heat Cells...

[meshmesh]

Just wondering how true all this is, & whether it could be used toward eg: freezing/cooling ait intake to the CAI PODS, or keeping cold air at the intercooler.. etc etc.

Below is a quote from the original site/forum I found it at.

Electricity-Generating Car Cooling System

Special heat cells are placed around the engine block to generate extra electricity.

They have these special heat cells out now that are like solar cells, except they are tuned to work with pure heat instead of light. You could put some around the engine block. This would use up the heat, which would cool the engine. There would be a backup cooling system in case the car needed it. There would also still be an alternator. Maybe while the alternator ran the car's electrical system, the heat cells could charge an extra battery or something that you could download into your house for use or maybe hook up a special thing at the gas station and sell the power back for a gas price discount. This would be very good in hybrids.

http://www.halfbakery.com/idea/Electricity...ooling_20System

This company sells all the stuf.. I'm buggered what to do with it, hoping someone could shed some light on the subject

http://www.melcor.com/

[Mini Me]

I did study some thermo dynamics at uni, but not enough to comment on the subject well enough. judging by the efficiency of solar panels, the amount of energy you could gain from these "heat cells" would be very low.

[GTRman1992]

I've used these "Peltier effect" devices before, but in a different capacity. We supplied electricity to generate cooling. These are the devices you find in those car fidges. Once side cools the other heats. I've been thinking of using one to cool the water in a water injection system.

Not sure about generating power from engine block heat though ?

[meshmesh]

I was thinking, if what these guys are saying is possible, about attaching the Thermoelectrics thingo's to the block & using that energy to cool. Then would it be possible to..

a) build a sort of "fridge Cold Air Intake Box" around the PODS

B) controll/power & cool water sprays, to the intercooler, & maybe spray the air via the cold air intake.

I'm not into all this but, they mentioned something, that by attaching these to the block will actually cool the block down significantly, whilst using the heat as energy to power something else, is this correct?

[GTRman1992]

It would take a large device to cool the block, there is a lot of thermal energy there. You would also be cooling it at points, not evenly may not be so good.

As far as a refigerated intake goes, I don't think the devices could produce enough cooling for the volumn of air passing.

Cooling a tank of fluid for a sprayer would work well.

My thoughts anyway.