Talk:Thermotunnel cooling

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[edit] Clean up tag

It's all very nice adding a clean-up tag, but perhaps you could explain why you feel it needs cleaning up? Content? Copyediting? NPOV?njh 23:28, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Electricity Generation

If the thermotunnel effect can be used (with input of electrical energy) as a refrigirator, can it run in inverse as a source of electrical energy? Polonium 15:39, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

Yes. I recall them proposing using thermotunnel coolers for extracting heat from the car exhaust to replace the alternator. They will be fairly efficient heat engines as they are fairly efficient heat pumps. An efficient heat pump is usually an efficient heat engine (over its working range). njh 08:36, 4 February 2006 (UTC)