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by arcanist_union 1760 days ago
Current thermoelectric tech has very low efficiencies. It's an active area of research where any small improvement could be significant. It would be an ideal way to produce power more or less directly from thermal neutron bombardment, IF a method / material can be found that can make direct thermoelectric conversion efficient enough to compete with a water or molten salt heat exchanger loop.