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by quickthrowman 288 days ago
The maximum COP for a peltier device is 1, in practice it’s far below that.

Heat pumps go way beyond a COP of 1; an open-loop cooling system with an evaporative cooling tower can have a COP of 7. A closed loop heat pump alone can have a COP of 4.

Peltier devices are a dead end for moving heat around outside of specialized applications where you can’t drag around two heat exchangers, a valve, and a pump (like active cooling clothing). It’s impossible for them to even approach the efficiency of resistive heating (COP of 1).

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The aim here is to get power from temperature differential, not vice-versa