thermoelectricity

IPA: θˈɝmoʊɪɫɛktrˈɪsʌti

Examples of "thermoelectricity" in Sentences

There is a whole program of investments in thermoelectricity.
Their branched tails lay in shadow, their heads in sunlight, while thermoelectricity charged their biochemical batteries.
Sturgeon also worked on improving the voltaic battery, developing a theory of thermoelectricity, and even atmospheric charge conditions.
The government plans to invest an additional $5 billion in new thermoelectric plants across the nation, with the goal that thermoelectricity will account for half the nation's power by the year 2015.
Thus about fifty years ago OErsted, of Copenhagen, discovered the deflection of a magnetic needle by an electric current; and about the same time Thomas Seebeck, of Berlin, discovered thermoelectricity.
The conductivity of electricity and heat by metals, thermoelectricity, permanent and temporary magnets, heat radiation and absorption, the optical, electrical and magnetic properties of crystals - all these aspects promise us a rich harvest.
For example, if we could establish the truth of what up till now is only a conjecture, namely, that it is the action of the sun which produces thermoelectricity at the equator; that this produces terrestrial magnetism; and that this magnetism, again, is the cause of the aurora borealis, these would be truths externally of great, but internally of little, significance.