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by jbay808 1560 days ago
Yes, thermocouples can work as heat pumps, and Peltier elements can work as thermocouples.
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There are actually flow meters that make use of this. They heat the thermocouple using itself, then switch back to using it as a thermocouple and measure the rate of heat dissipation and correlate that to flow rate.