Timeline for Uranium block house heating
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| Feb 19, 2018 at 9:47 | comment | added | KalleMP | Also note that if the outside temperature always remains at -40 the subsurface temperature will also trend to the same temperature until you dig deeper and meet the rising geothermal heat flow. | |
| Feb 17, 2018 at 20:25 | comment | added | Mark | The posited 25 C difference between the air and the ground is small. Even the 60 C difference between the air and the house is small (and counterproductive to exploit). A typical thermoelectric generator uses a temperature difference of hundreds of degrees. | |
| Feb 17, 2018 at 18:39 | comment | added | Count Iblis | @Mark Yes, but note that the temperature differences here can actually be very large. | |
| Feb 17, 2018 at 1:00 | comment | added | Mark | The Seebeck effect is abysmally inefficient at low temperature differences. | |
| Feb 17, 2018 at 0:20 | history | answered | Count Iblis | CC BY-SA 3.0 |