

New technology promising to cut CO2 and save gas



thermoelectric generators or TEGs for short.




ten terawatt hours per year. 


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By JonnyDough on 6/9/2008 8:02:46 AM , Rating: 2
I wonder too about the heat in cars. Why is it that we don't have rear-engine cars in the south where they don't need the engine heat rising back through the car,
and front engine cars in the north where they need to pull heat off the engine to warm the car? That way when you run the AC or the heat, you don't need as much.

Why can't some sort of sealed steam contraption be placed over the motor, like a sealed and pressurized radiator that is used to generate energy from the heat? It would apply the same concept used in cooling pipe heat sinks on computers. The liquid boils, rises to the top where it's cooled, and then drops back down to be boiled again. It's a pretty simple concept.

We already lug the water around in our cars and heat it. We already use air to cool the water. Now why not let naturally rising steam do some work to make electricity to power the car? If you ran sealed pipes up from the engine along the top of the car and then down the back and return it to the front, wouldn't that be an effective cooling loop? Just write "Caution, Hot" on the pipe.

If this sounds unsafe because of a crash, I'm sure engineers would come up with a safe way of doing it. At the VERY least they could do this on semi-trucks somehow. Those things burn a ton of fuel. If we took all the trucks off the road suddenly, gas prices would plummet. And yes, I'm aware they burn diesel. Diesel is just less refined gasoline!

