How to Use thermoelectric in a Sentence

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• To be thermoelectric, a substance must let electrons flow through it while blocking the movement of heat.
  — Sophie Bushwick, Discover Magazine, 20 Sep. 2012
• Total also acquired 50 percent of two thermoelectric plants in the Bahia area and the right to use a regasification unit in the city.
  — Sabrina Valle, Bloomberg.com, 9 May 2017
• The thermoelectric plant has stopped at Zahrani power station, after the Deir Ammar plant stopped on Friday due to a fuel shortage.
  — Reuters, CNN, 9 Oct. 2021
• The thermoelectric Peltier effect system is easy to maintain, with no filter to clean.
  — Jessica MacDonald, Travel + Leisure, 13 Oct. 2023
• From float trips on the river to setting up camp on the beach, the super portable, thermoelectric BioLite stove, which weighs just 33 oz., can handle it all.
  — J.d. Simkins, Sunset Magazine, 3 June 2022
• HP’s new Omen Mineframe Headset is the first to feature active earcup cooling by using thermoelectric magnets to cool your ears.
  — Tom Warren, The Verge, 23 Aug. 2018
• BioLite From float trips on the river to setting up camp on the beach, the super portable, thermoelectric BioLite stove, which weighs just 33 oz., can handle it all.
  — Krista Simmons, Sunset Magazine, 1 Sep. 2022
• Using solar power also will help avoid the use of up to 590.9 million gallons of water by thermoelectric power plants.
  — Carrie Napoleon, Post-Tribune, 5 July 2017
• His solution: equipping his 50-pound camera system with a thermoelectric cooling system, a carbon fiber frame and LED lights, which give off less heat than standard lights.
  — Jennifer Nalewicki, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Jan. 2021
• But her interest in the arts led her to a more imaginative way of using her thermoelectric technology.
  — Emma Reynolds, CNN, 25 Nov. 2019
• The thermoelectric Koolatron is an intriguing alternative to all the typical one-trick-pony coolers on the market.
  — Saryn Chorney, Travel + Leisure, 9 Feb. 2023
• Researchers have now made a thermoelectric generator (TEG) that is soft and stretchy and that biodegrades completely when exposed to the environment.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 18 Feb. 2023
• There was also talk of an agreement involving three island thermoelectric plants.
  — Washington Post, 3 Oct. 2019
• Another option would be to take this temperature difference to power a thermoelectric device (and here is how those work).
  — Rhett Allain, WIRED, 12 June 2018
• Cooler Master’s thermoelectric hybrid coolert should be available in the third quarter.
  — Gordon Mah Ung, PCWorld, 5 June 2018
• The specific type on Voyager is called a radioisotope thermoelectric generator, which is a big name for what is basically a hunk of plutonium in a box.
  — Rhett Allain, WIRED, 23 Feb. 2024
• At their destination, a thermoelectric plant, a crane hoisted the drugs to the roof to incinerate them in an industrial furnace that Cuban officials say burns at over 1,700 degrees Celsius.
  — Patrick Oppmann, CNN, 9 Dec. 2020
• But the thermoelectric materials that convert thermal to electrical energy aren't very good at their job.
  — Sophie Bushwick, Discover Magazine, 20 Sep. 2012
• The facility operates an oil pipeline that receives Cuban crude oil that powers thermoelectric plants.
  — Andrea RodrÍguez, ajc, 11 Aug. 2022
• Goodyear is looking to use thermoelectric materials (like bismuth telluride and tin selenide), to generate electricity from the difference between the hottest and coolest parts of the rubber.
  — Alex Davies, WIRED, 12 Mar. 2015
• Over the past 2 decades, researchers have produced thermoelectric materials with increasing ZTs.
  — Robert F. Service, Science | AAAS, 2 Aug. 2021
• There are both condenser and thermoelectric wine fridges available today — the former are typically larger and more powerful, while the latter are more compact and energy-efficient.
  — Camryn Rabideau, Peoplemag, 5 Dec. 2022
• Researchers use a dimensionless quantity called ZT to describe the strength of the thermoelectric effect in any combination of materials.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 5 Dec. 2023
• Just as conventional air-conditioning units keep a space cool by transferring heat outside of it, Chen has crafted palm-sized thermoelectric devices that react to a preferred temperature set by the user.
  — Bloomberg Wire, Dallas News, 2 Sep. 2023
• The future of thermoelectric power is promising, especially with this new discovery.
  — Kristen A. Schmitt, Smithsonian, 10 Apr. 2017
• The future of thermoelectric power is promising, especially with this new discovery.
  — Kristen A. Schmitt, Smithsonian, 10 Apr. 2017
• By combining the liquid solar energy storage solution with a thermoelectric generator, the researchers were able to re-harness the power.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 15 Apr. 2022
• But thermoelectric energy can only keep a fairly small space cool efficiently.
  — Cassidy Olsen, Good Housekeeping, 31 Mar. 2023
• The wearable, which is called a thermoelectric generator (TEG), directly turns your body’s heat into electrical energy.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 23 Feb. 2021
• Since our bodies waste so much energy as heat, implantable thermoelectric generators (TEGs) have been of particular interest.
  — Ned Carter Miles, Discover Magazine, 3 May 2024

Last Updated: 23 Nov 2024