Talk:Thermoelectricity
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[edit] This article is wrong
Why is MHD listed in this article as a form of thermoelectricity? It got nothing more to do with thermoelectricity than an electromechanical generator. It's not even solid state. Perhaps the person who added the list of supposed thermoelectric effects is not aware of the conventional usage of the term "thermoelectricity", but it's usually restricted to the Seebeck, Peltier, and Thomson effects (see http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1989STIN...8927079R). Thermionic devices are not thermoelectric. MHD devices are not thermoelectric. Just look at the ample scientific literature on the subject. Tarchon 17:25, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Merge thermoelectric effect into here ?
... er, no! If anything was going to be merged, then thermoelectricity should be merged into the substantial article thermoelectric effect. However, there is nothing in thermoelectricity above that in thermoelectric effect, so it might as well be deleted. Nothing that is, other than a bit of idle speculation that some people use the term thermoelectricty wrongly to cover thermal methods of power generation, which are (or should be) covered in their own pages. NeilUK (talk) 12:59, 9 January 2008 (UTC)
<edit> Actually, I'll go back on that rant a little. Should "Thermoelectricity" be a disambiguation page, as somebody typing it will mean either "Seebeck et al", or "MHD et al", two disctintcly different disciplines </edit> NeilUK (talk) 09:32, 10 January 2008 (UTC)
what about telling people something more simple like how much electrical energy can be produced from heat with these materials much like is done on Wiki's solar page. For example, how much electricity could be produced by putting such materials around an automobile engine? just a layperson's comment after reading this tech review article http://www.technologyreview.com/Energy/20448/ —Preceding unsigned comment added by 218.186.8.11 (talk) 09:48, 23 March 2008 (UTC)
