@@itsRevela except the fact that the parts themselves cost over 100$ for less energy than a single 18650 Li-Ion battery. A 5$ solar cell with 5$ controller a 5$ lithium battery is infinitely more efficient and cheaper and power dense in comparison.
@@MaxC_1 If you got a few of those solar cells and stuck them to your window, could you save on power throughout the day. Depending on how much it costs to run your pc a day. Would it be worth it to have that power going into your pc and when your pc is off it goes into the battery to be used later? Not that it would be super efficient but it would be cool. I guess you would still need it hooked up to the wall because eventually it would run out of power. What kind of money could you save.
It makes < 2W and kills airflow. Upcoming GPUs and CPUs can easily use >400W combined. It's a fun video but it doesn't have any practical application, increasing efficiency by 0.5% at the cost of overheating components doesn't make sense.
@@michiman6757 you really cannot run most gaming pcs off solar panels until you have a lot of them. For stuff that consume so much power- the power from electricity grid would be far cheaper. But you can just grab a few solar cells for like 200$ from china (or local sellers which sell those) and some batteries and hook em up together and you should have enough power to run a general use pc (50W under use max) through the day.
Suggestion: build a steam generator to power a PC, and while you’re gaming, you have to shovel coal into the firebox to prevent the electricity from going out.
That's actually super impressive. Heat is easy to produce, thus making it one of the easiest sources of power that one can feed back into an electrical setup.
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The Peltier module actually doesn't work on heat alone but rather a thermal gradient. As long as one side is warmer or colder than the other, it'll generate electricity (goes without saying that a greater difference equals greater output) but basically what I did back when I was in middle school was just attach a bunch of heatsinks to the cold side and it created enough of a gradient to output 5V, however, the cost-to-benefit ratio would take a long time but hey, it works
@@lssndrnv I think that's probably why you don't see it in more places. There's a bunch of places where there's an excess build up in heat, but they aren't using this to bleed some of it off for productive use. I've often times wondered why that is and I think it's probably because cooling the other side itself generates a bunch of heat and uses more power than you'd gain in this fashion.
I feel like you could use a custom water loop to the gpu and cpu to get more heat directly to those modules over losing heat through the air. Probably would end up being more efficient and more compact since you wouldn't need a box for airflow you could almost just mount it directly to the top of the case
from acog obsessed ash main to electrical major college drop out after 2 years in type knowledge, while being sponsored by one of the biggest computer sales companies in america, you have truly shown alot
please make a episode 2 where you make a 100% viable version w/ real parts and stuff. That would be epic. also I think I know what type of pc I am building lol
I've used Peltier plates a bit in school for an ISS related project to control water temps for growing food in space. We're definitely at the point of the components putting out enough heat that we can recover some energy back into the system. Haven't looked to see if you've already done this. I think the PSU part might be the most tricky piece of it. The much more efficient way would also be with a water cooling loop and water blocks instead, not with air and fans. You'd have to build a closed loop water cooling system which you know is a common thing in our computer enthusiast community. I just found your channel and man I really enjoy your videos!!!
My thought was that this would make the most sense by using some sort of liquid cooling on the cold side and then running the power generated to a battery to augment whatever power is coming in from the mains.The main benefit being that there should be a reduction in the amount of cooling needed as both the peltier and the liquid cooling should drain a bunch of the heat that builds up in a case.
I could only imagine if there was a pc case specifically designed for this. Where it could only exhaust through a chamber for heat to go through and then the energy produced goes back into some sort of external battery that the power supply could draw from.
Finally! I've been trying to get someone to try this for years now! Now, what would happen if you removed ALL the moving parts from the system. Use the thermoelectric generation exclusively as the cooling system while feeding it all back into the psu.
i see a few problems. 1 - it probably costs more to run the fans connected to the cardboard box, than you save from the heat 2 - pumping the air back into the pc is a bad idea, since the air won't be cooled by any significant amount
they really aren't that efficient- you are just looking at no load voltage. Even 10ohm across them will drop the output by close to half or more. They have done numbers like these since a long time tbh
I thought this was going to be silly TH-cam video for views but there are some genuine good ideas in here, I would like to see these the concept of using the heat to increase the PC's efficiency expanded apon in another video!!!
Though similar approaches exists to increase efficiency. For example a triple expansion engine feeds the slightly less good heat into another cylinder to produce more work. The more interesting question is what the theoretical efficiency for a non-quantum computer is, measured in J/bit-flip.
This would be great for living off the grid. Saving power is important for that life style where you can't "just plug it in". Really would be cool to get a solid PC build or attachment that would do this. Preferably not built out of cardboard.
you know what is actually solid and cheaper? 100$ worth of Lifepo4 batteries, solar panels and a cheap charger controller. You are getting atleast 5 times more output for same price
@@MaxC_1 This would be additive. Any additinal power saving options are nice for being on the road. Also there is no way high end computers are currently easy to work with off the grid. You have to settle for something smaller.
@@noisynixx this is barely additive- you get like 0.5W power at most but all you're doing is heating up the pc more by pushing in the hot air into PC again and also using that pump and all for the air will cost you more. It is just basic thermodynamics Also you can use a decently powerful GPU+CPU combo even when offgrid. I mean a lot of offgrid systems are easily capable of running 1kW+ of heaters so a gaming PC that can run 1080p/1440p very well can be arranged at under 300-400W so you will definitely not want to run the highest end stuff- but anything in between should work fine
What if you watercool everything but not using water but some liquid with a low boiling temperature, so the coolant boils and turns a turbine? Maybe if boiling liquid is bad inside cooling blocks. You can use watercooling, and heat transfer to a low boiling point fluid, like a relay type thing. Pretty much 100% of electricy computers use turn to heat, and steam turbines are apparently up to 90% efficient, so in theory you could reduce electronics power usage to 10% of original?
Remember under volting is a thing. Under volting my 3080 saved 140watts and I lost 5% performance. I cap mine at 140 fps so no actual loss in game. And amd software auto under volts my 5900x per core 4.55 ghz on 12 cores
aight no joke this isnt haha hes a genius haha meme! this is actually really smart and i can see this being used in the future. Imagine a little box you put on top of your pc to power xyz while youre gaming or browsing the internet etc. im excited to see if a company will run with this idea and create something like this in the future
What if you redirected the power into a huge battery, that you then could plug into your pc? So the battery charges and powers the pc while you're gaming. That could potentially work (without knowing anything about power 💀💀)
yes that is possible, i actually tried a concept like this but with a cheap 20 dollar set of usb solar panels, i used solar panels to charge a set of 18650 lithium ion batteries in a usb charger which i then took and connected them to an energy inverter to turn the batteries DC Voltage into AC voltage and used this to power my pc, it ran for about 15 minutes before the battery died which was more than i was hoping for but less than i had planned out due to efficiency losses. When the energy was transferred from source to source it was loosing quite a bit of power along the way because of these losses, from the batteries to the inverter it is only about 75% efficient, then from the converter to the pc it was about 80% or so efficiency as my pc's power supply is 80+ rated, then from the pc power supply to the components there must be some other losses as well that i'm not sure about. Overall it was definitely a fun experiment as it was amazing that it was running on essentially nothing but sunlight but ultimately quite pointless when wall power exists and the batteries take 4 hours to charge.
But this is just 0,7W that are coming out of that thing. Thats not really worth it. You would need much more efficient peltier elements than these. Peltier elements are better at pumping heat from one side to the other side. They are mainly used for camping freezers or other coolers, but even there they are inefficient, because of the very low efficiency 🧅
Reasons why the voltage/amps were low for anyone wondering: 1) Peltier modules (like the ones used here) have a very low efficiency (10-13%). So, receiving for example 100W of heat turns into about 10-13W of power. 2) The heat in the system is not directed exclusively to the Peltiers. The computer components are cooled down with a cooler each, then the heated air is moved out the case and only a fraction reaches the heat sinks on the Peltiers, that have to be heated again to produce voltage. (I'm not even going to bother with the lack of proper insulation. The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of the CPU and GPU is 150W and 450W respectively (CPU can reach up to 250W), meaning the cooling system should be able to handle this many watts of heat. Receiving less than 1W at the Peltiers (2.5Volts*0.3Amps = 0.75Watts) is underwhelming to say the least, when the theoretical max would be 60-70W (enough to charge or directly use a laptop, a mid-tier CPU, quite a few LEDs or even your monitors). The goal should be to directly convert part of the heat back to energy, and then get rid of any excess heat that we couldn't use. Suggestions for improving this: 1) You attach two or more copper heat pipes directly on the CPU and GPU (maybe also on the motherboard and RAM? It will add a significant cost to it for little heat gains.). They go directly to the Peltiers to produce voltage and then cooled down by water coolers and/or air coolers/heat sinks. Bonus points if it's one of those heat pipes with gas in them for better heat transfer. 2) The environment of the system should have little if no airflow, probably only on the motherboard circuits and RAM to cool them if they won't be used to generate electricity, to achieve a higher temperature in the heat pipes. Since most of the generated heat is transferred through them and not through air, it shouldn't result in a significant rise of the temperature inside the case. Having a way to regulate it in any case should be useful, though. 3) The efficiency can be further increased if the cool side of the Peltiers can become cooler, so strap a few heat sinks on the other side too. 4) For god’s sake, use a good thermal paste, not thermal glue. A huge improvement would be to create a closed loop with a cooling fluid, creating a Rankine cycle (like a steam turbine power generator) that has a much better efficiency (20-40%) to convert more heat into electricity. In any case, a cool project if you have way too much money and time on your hands. Kudos if you made it this far, now you're a little smarter. 😄
That's actually a great idea. Just how to make it work efficiently in a real world scenario. I mean almost all of the energy we use to run our PCs just turns into heat, and we use more energy to cool it down. If only, somehow there was a way how to turn most of the heat back to electricity...
I was told by somewhat a friend of mine around 2005ish that she found a way to quite efficiently turn PC heat into electricity from using liquid mercury expanding through a very long tesla tube, especially for smartphones. 2015ish... she then told me that project was too expensive, but... started looking into 3D printing fiber photonic GPUs which requires almost no power and produces no heat.
This is dangerous. It reminds me of the time I tried to make a water-powered personal computer. I didn't even have to plug it into the wall and it generated more than enough power to stay on as long as I had water. It was flawless. I decided to show my friends and they built similar rigs. They started to boast about it online which gained the attention of certain groups. My one friend with the largest following spread his build everywhere. One day, it all stopped. He disappeared. A week after his disappearance, he was found dead. Suicide. He had shot himself three times in the back of his head then drove out in the middle of the desert. Once he reached his destination, he lit himself on fire and stuffed himself inside his trunk. "What could possibly lead someone to do this to themself?" I thought. Then it all became clear to me. I figured that once he saw his power bill after using a computer that runs on water, he went utterly insane due to how low the cost was. I mean when I saw my bill for the first I went absolutely mad. After that, I had vowed to never touch a water-powered PC ever again. Homeless, I just want you to be careful. Maybe an expensive power bill is worth it.
For all the people asking why this sort of this isn't used in modern PCs, it's because the additional costs to all the extra components far outweighs any sort of efficiency gains from a system like this. You are effectively generating a watt or two from the waste heat of a system that requires a few hundred times that to run. And for those who are wondering, similar systems are actually used for some large datacenters, but rather than turning that waste heat back into electricity it's directed somewhere useful, like to heating pools or heating homes and greenhouses.
I get that this video is mainly for entertainment, but for anyone who wasn't sure... 10:25 - it might be showing 280 milliamps on the meter, but the meter basically puts a short-circuit across the probes when in Current mode, so there will be almost no voltage across the TEGs when measuring the current. 2.1V * 280mA would be just over *half* a Watt. But the real generated power is going to be only a tiny fraction of that. Also, eventually the heatsinks inside the box will reach more of an equilibrium with the temperature on the hot side of the TEGs, so it will become even less efficient. Having said that, with enough TEGs, and a very small amount of (very low-power) active cooling with fans, you *might* be able to slowly charge your phone using only the heat from the PC. Or, charge a power bank using the TEGs (which will take a long time), then charge your phone from the power bank later. Or, just underclock your GPU a tiny tiny bit, and save yourself more on the electricity bill than you would gain from this setup. ;)
This kind of thermoelectric generator (a Peltier module) has a higher electric output if the temperature difference is higher. The best way to do it is to put the generator module between the CPU and the cold plate of the AIO. You don't even need anything external to the PC. You should try it.
With proper insulation you could put the generators in the middle wall, and when the air makes its way back in the system passes by these cool pads cooling it without any addition fan.
This could be done much more efficiently with a liquid cooling loop that takes the heat from the CPU and GPU to a water block that transfers the heat to the dielectrics and use the fan and coolers on the outside to keep the thermal differential
how does he even come up with this stuff? Its so absurd that i wanna keep watching, mans a genius
thas how inventors work they have a lot of bad ideas that don't work but ones in a time that work they can change the world
I think he should start producing this!!! It can quite literally change the technology industry for the better!!! 😂😊
This isn't even that crazy of an idea
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@@riku861 yeah but how many people have u seen do this tho
the idea of recycling heat to lower your overall power draw from the wall is a good idea
tbh should be made into a real product :')
@@itsRevela except the fact that the parts themselves cost over 100$ for less energy than a single 18650 Li-Ion battery. A 5$ solar cell with 5$ controller a 5$ lithium battery is infinitely more efficient and cheaper and power dense in comparison.
@@MaxC_1 If you got a few of those solar cells and stuck them to your window, could you save on power throughout the day. Depending on how much it costs to run your pc a day. Would it be worth it to have that power going into your pc and when your pc is off it goes into the battery to be used later? Not that it would be super efficient but it would be cool.
I guess you would still need it hooked up to the wall because eventually it would run out of power. What kind of money could you save.
It makes < 2W and kills airflow. Upcoming GPUs and CPUs can easily use >400W combined. It's a fun video but it doesn't have any practical application, increasing efficiency by 0.5% at the cost of overheating components doesn't make sense.
@@michiman6757 you really cannot run most gaming pcs off solar panels until you have a lot of them. For stuff that consume so much power- the power from electricity grid would be far cheaper.
But you can just grab a few solar cells for like 200$ from china (or local sellers which sell those) and some batteries and hook em up together and you should have enough power to run a general use pc (50W under use max) through the day.
Suggestion: build a steam generator to power a PC, and while you’re gaming, you have to shovel coal into the firebox to prevent the electricity from going out.
“Bro why does it sound like you’re shoveling coal we’re playing cod”
sorry guys cant play coals expensive right now
it would be worse if he ran a pc from a car engine bcuz fuel prices
@@FuZe. Everyday I'm shovelin'
@@DJFreshJuice 😭
Those impressions of all the TechTubers was actually spot on lmao
Right? that was the best part
That's actually super impressive. Heat is easy to produce, thus making it one of the easiest sources of power that one can feed back into an electrical setup.
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haha
The Peltier module actually doesn't work on heat alone but rather a thermal gradient. As long as one side is warmer or colder than the other, it'll generate electricity (goes without saying that a greater difference equals greater output) but basically what I did back when I was in middle school was just attach a bunch of heatsinks to the cold side and it created enough of a gradient to output 5V, however, the cost-to-benefit ratio would take a long time but hey, it works
@@lssndrnv I think that's probably why you don't see it in more places. There's a bunch of places where there's an excess build up in heat, but they aren't using this to bleed some of it off for productive use. I've often times wondered why that is and I think it's probably because cooling the other side itself generates a bunch of heat and uses more power than you'd gain in this fashion.
he’s gained too much power, he’s doing the impossible. literally making infinite power
He's attained *perpetual energy*
Hes name is already on the list of every intelligence service on earth
He is too smart for his own good that it makes him average like us
I'm confused, did this guy invent some perpetual motion type shit?
guy casually breaks law of conservation
I feel like you could use a custom water loop to the gpu and cpu to get more heat directly to those modules over losing heat through the air. Probably would end up being more efficient and more compact since you wouldn't need a box for airflow you could almost just mount it directly to the top of the case
and more expensive
@@user-py9cy1sy9u In the long run, it could save money.
@@user-py9cy1sy9u he's basically already got one running on the side to cool down the cool side
@@CooperF No it wont save money. Do some math
I think you are onto something there.
from acog obsessed ash main to electrical major college drop out after 2 years in type knowledge, while being sponsored by one of the biggest computer sales companies in america, you have truly shown alot
please make a episode 2 where you make a 100% viable version w/ real parts and stuff. That would be epic. also I think I know what type of pc I am building lol
I've used Peltier plates a bit in school for an ISS related project to control water temps for growing food in space. We're definitely at the point of the components putting out enough heat that we can recover some energy back into the system.
Haven't looked to see if you've already done this. I think the PSU part might be the most tricky piece of it.
The much more efficient way would also be with a water cooling loop and water blocks instead, not with air and fans. You'd have to build a closed loop water cooling system which you know is a common thing in our computer enthusiast community.
I just found your channel and man I really enjoy your videos!!!
My thought was that this would make the most sense by using some sort of liquid cooling on the cold side and then running the power generated to a battery to augment whatever power is coming in from the mains.The main benefit being that there should be a reduction in the amount of cooling needed as both the peltier and the liquid cooling should drain a bunch of the heat that builds up in a case.
This is high quality stuff. I wonder what a manufacturer or LTT could do with the same concept
Linus literally heated his swimming pool using the heat from his server room/computers. So yes I could see this happening in a future project.
Nothing, this video is a joke
@@marcusmedina9940 youre a joke
@@marcusmedina9940 doubt
@@brychaus yup always good to doubt when someone claims to have broken a law of thermodynamics.
I could only imagine if there was a pc case specifically designed for this. Where it could only exhaust through a chamber for heat to go through and then the energy produced goes back into some sort of external battery that the power supply could draw from.
You could just do a custom water loop to transfer the heat to the peltier devices(much more efficient).
love your videos man, you have to be the smartest youtubers ever. Thanks for working so hard on these videos.
Finally! I've been trying to get someone to try this for years now! Now, what would happen if you removed ALL the moving parts from the system. Use the thermoelectric generation exclusively as the cooling system while feeding it all back into the psu.
Y'all don't know how much I love this guy's videos
i see a few problems.
1 - it probably costs more to run the fans connected to the cardboard box, than you save from the heat
2 - pumping the air back into the pc is a bad idea, since the air won't be cooled by any significant amount
You can tell that the potato trauma is still there. You have my fullest respect that you pulled through. 💪(🥔)
I was thinking of adding those things on the back of a solar panel so I could collect more electricity as it heats up in the sun
I use the excess heat produced by my PC to heat my bedroom. Unless its extremely cold outside, I don't need to use a heater, when I play on my PC.
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Holy crap Louis, I didn't know TEGs had gotten that efficient. Those things were small but outputted more than half a volt!
And together they outputted 300 mA at over 2 v!
they really aren't that efficient- you are just looking at no load voltage. Even 10ohm across them will drop the output by close to half or more. They have done numbers like these since a long time tbh
Surely sterling engines are still more efficient?
This is an amazing example of being a nerd and making amazing inventions. Well done 👍
This is actually genius I hope something like this gets made into a commercial product.
Someone finally did what I was thinking 🤔. If anythink, it could help with heat displayment.
I thought this was going to be silly TH-cam video for views but there are some genuine good ideas in here, I would like to see these the concept of using the heat to increase the PC's efficiency expanded apon in another video!!!
The employee going along with the Mr. Homeless’s totally original and not at all stale giga-fart joke made my day lol
as a microcenter employee we all do this :3
@@harusrl How many people come in trying to call things gigafarts like it's funny? Do they laugh at it when they say it?
But you need energy to cool down the other side of the module with your water cooler. So the total loss is greater than the gain.
Yep Second law of thermodynamics.
Yes, it's like welcome to reality.
Well you can thank Peltier module's ( or TEG) ultra low efficiency for that.
Though similar approaches exists to increase efficiency. For example a triple expansion engine feeds the slightly less good heat into another cylinder to produce more work. The more interesting question is what the theoretical efficiency for a non-quantum computer is, measured in J/bit-flip.
Very little power though. A few watts at best, while the setup uses hundreds. So it boosts efficiency by less than a percent. Still cool idea.
hummmus literally never ever dissapoints. love your vidyas brah
Okay now THIS is epic
no u
@@BasicallyHomeless gottem
NO U@@BasicallyHomeless
Honestly at this point this man is the mr beast of computer technology.
dont compare that dingbat to this guy please.
I wanna nominate this the most cringe comment on the internet i've read today.
@@Jackpkmn same lol
How
This would be great for living off the grid. Saving power is important for that life style where you can't "just plug it in". Really would be cool to get a solid PC build or attachment that would do this. Preferably not built out of cardboard.
you know what is actually solid and cheaper? 100$ worth of Lifepo4 batteries, solar panels and a cheap charger controller. You are getting atleast 5 times more output for same price
@@MaxC_1 This would be additive. Any additinal power saving options are nice for being on the road. Also there is no way high end computers are currently easy to work with off the grid. You have to settle for something smaller.
@@noisynixx this is barely additive- you get like 0.5W power at most but all you're doing is heating up the pc more by pushing in the hot air into PC again and also using that pump and all for the air will cost you more. It is just basic thermodynamics
Also you can use a decently powerful GPU+CPU combo even when offgrid. I mean a lot of offgrid systems are easily capable of running 1kW+ of heaters so a gaming PC that can run 1080p/1440p very well can be arranged at under 300-400W so you will definitely not want to run the highest end stuff- but anything in between should work fine
My laptop will be powering the house with this one
bro this is life changeing we dont need to use coal
I love that we have gone from dumb siege beans challenges (the vids were great) to the craziest pc building video's
Why do I feel like Microcenter is already done with Him, like they see him walk in and go 💀
as a time traveler, pcs are now ran by themselves because of this discovery
The fact that MicroCenter keeps working with you is crazy. But I totally understand why
Fun fact, I used to pick up for that exact micro center. If you go down the access road a little it takes you to the dock in the back
One day this man will power his PC from actual wishes and dreams. Lol
Using the human brains neurons and molecular energy to individually power particles needed to run a pc
Btw this is just some mumbo jumbo
With each video, Mr. Homle's head gets larger...and his intelligence is the of all time.
my man casually inventing a perpetual energy machine
Science hates those who do this one simple trick!
There's no such thing as perpetual energy
@@nick8231 not yet
@@firestargaming9521 it's literally physically impossible it doesn't comply with the laws of physics
@@nick8231 anything is possible
It’s like putting solar panels around your room, sure it will reduce your power draw but it’s better to just put that shit on your roof lol.
This is brilliant! this is heat energy cycle. All you need to have is a battery kick starter and battery storage.
He’s like the Tony Start of the video game world
LTT crossover episode? Sounds like a job for the new lab!
They've made videos on TEGs before..afaik the loss of efficiency makes it unworkable/inefficient. But maybe they've gotten better
You need way higher temperature difference to get any meanigful power out of them.
YES AGREED! You need to drain the life from components much faster in order for companies who sell them make huge profits off of this types of tech..
What if you watercool everything but not using water but some liquid with a low boiling temperature, so the coolant boils and turns a turbine?
Maybe if boiling liquid is bad inside cooling blocks. You can use watercooling, and heat transfer to a low boiling point fluid, like a relay type thing.
Pretty much 100% of electricy computers use turn to heat, and steam turbines are apparently up to 90% efficient, so in theory you could reduce electronics power usage to 10% of original?
Don't let the government know about this idea... GET THIS! What if you could turn heat into powering up your car...
the meme of an extension wire plugged into itself crossed my mind, but this is on another whole new level
I’m gonna be screwed by heat when I upgrade my PC, I live in Australia and very rarely get to use my AC.
Remember under volting is a thing.
Under volting my 3080 saved 140watts and I lost 5% performance. I cap mine at 140 fps so no actual loss in game. And amd software auto under volts my 5900x per core 4.55 ghz on 12 cores
aight no joke this isnt haha hes a genius haha meme! this is actually really smart and i can see this being used in the future. Imagine a little box you put on top of your pc to power xyz while youre gaming or browsing the internet etc. im excited to see if a company will run with this idea and create something like this in the future
What if you redirected the power into a huge battery, that you then could plug into your pc? So the battery charges and powers the pc while you're gaming. That could potentially work (without knowing anything about power 💀💀)
yes that is possible, i actually tried a concept like this but with a cheap 20 dollar set of usb solar panels, i used solar panels to charge a set of 18650 lithium ion batteries in a usb charger which i then took and connected them to an energy inverter to turn the batteries DC Voltage into AC voltage and used this to power my pc, it ran for about 15 minutes before the battery died which was more than i was hoping for but less than i had planned out due to efficiency losses. When the energy was transferred from source to source it was loosing quite a bit of power along the way because of these losses, from the batteries to the inverter it is only about 75% efficient, then from the converter to the pc it was about 80% or so efficiency as my pc's power supply is 80+ rated, then from the pc power supply to the components there must be some other losses as well that i'm not sure about.
Overall it was definitely a fun experiment as it was amazing that it was running on essentially nothing but sunlight but ultimately quite pointless when wall power exists and the batteries take 4 hours to charge.
Dude I'm sorry I've never commented on a video ever but I have to. He's fucking bolting metal heatsinks onto a cardboard box. I love this man.
he literally built a machine that can regain EXACTLY 0.1% of the energy used (if the pc runs on about 700 watts)
Fun idea, however you can't forget that there is more energy being used to pump the water to cool those blocks than the system can generate
Exactly needs a passive heat transfer instead of a pump that is as efficient as the pump for it to be viable.
Copper tubes would be effective and using a fan
it hurts me that he can just buy a computer just for this
He got the parts for free to do this
He's probably gonna have to turn it back to the store for them to sell at used price. But he get to keep the box (generator) and the video though
this was an idea I had like a year ago, thanks for making it into reality!
Also, what about sound to energy?
Same bro
Türkiyedeki elektrik fiyatlarıyla herkesin aklına gelmeli zaten
That's called a microphone.
As someone with a 2007 pc and no graphics card, this video mentally hurt me. If I become a yter I know where to go to get a sponsored pc…
*discovers how to make infinite battery*
the 19 C.I.A agents outside of his house:
You should of put that in between the cpu and the heatsink
The hardest part about a perpetual motion machine is hiding the batteries.
I swear one day heel probably make like a pc that works under water
Such a thing already exists, it's called a water-resistant box and conformal coating helps too.
Looks like someone hasn’t seen the toilet pc video
@@robdobble6672 ive seen it but im talking about the water directly in contact with the conponent
THIS TUTORIAL REALLY WORKS I AM FROM PHILIPPINES! THIS MAN DESERVES A SUBSCRIPTION!
YOU GENIUS
Pure genius, this guy should be an engineer at TSMC
But this is just 0,7W that are coming out of that thing. Thats not really worth it. You would need much more efficient peltier elements than these. Peltier elements are better at pumping heat from one side to the other side. They are mainly used for camping freezers or other coolers, but even there they are inefficient, because of the very low efficiency 🧅
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@@ChloeCake "I build a gaming computer inside of Minecraft"
Imagine if every gas hob cooker had one of these, converting the heat from cooking into electricity... 🤔
Wtf this guy literally watches everyone in my sub feed
SOMEONE GIVE THIS GUY AN OSCAR THIS GUY IS THE BEST TH-camR
Reasons why the voltage/amps were low for anyone wondering:
1) Peltier modules (like the ones used here) have a very low efficiency (10-13%). So, receiving for example 100W of heat turns into about 10-13W of power.
2) The heat in the system is not directed exclusively to the Peltiers. The computer components are cooled down with a cooler each, then the heated air is moved out the case and only a fraction reaches the heat sinks on the Peltiers, that have to be heated again to produce voltage. (I'm not even going to bother with the lack of proper insulation.
The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of the CPU and GPU is 150W and 450W respectively (CPU can reach up to 250W), meaning the cooling system should be able to handle this many watts of heat. Receiving less than 1W at the Peltiers (2.5Volts*0.3Amps = 0.75Watts) is underwhelming to say the least, when the theoretical max would be 60-70W (enough to charge or directly use a laptop, a mid-tier CPU, quite a few LEDs or even your monitors). The goal should be to directly convert part of the heat back to energy, and then get rid of any excess heat that we couldn't use.
Suggestions for improving this:
1) You attach two or more copper heat pipes directly on the CPU and GPU (maybe also on the motherboard and RAM? It will add a significant cost to it for little heat gains.). They go directly to the Peltiers to produce voltage and then cooled down by water coolers and/or air coolers/heat sinks. Bonus points if it's one of those heat pipes with gas in them for better heat transfer.
2) The environment of the system should have little if no airflow, probably only on the motherboard circuits and RAM to cool them if they won't be used to generate electricity, to achieve a higher temperature in the heat pipes. Since most of the generated heat is transferred through them and not through air, it shouldn't result in a significant rise of the temperature inside the case. Having a way to regulate it in any case should be useful, though.
3) The efficiency can be further increased if the cool side of the Peltiers can become cooler, so strap a few heat sinks on the other side too.
4) For god’s sake, use a good thermal paste, not thermal glue.
A huge improvement would be to create a closed loop with a cooling fluid, creating a Rankine cycle (like a steam turbine power generator) that has a much better efficiency (20-40%) to convert more heat into electricity. In any case, a cool project if you have way too much money and time on your hands.
Kudos if you made it this far, now you're a little smarter. 😄
bro this could actually end up being normal with pcs at some point. what a great invention. solid solution to a real problem
Infinite power glitch
Right, A, Right, Left, Right, Rb, Right, Left, A, Y
That's actually a great idea. Just how to make it work efficiently in a real world scenario. I mean almost all of the energy we use to run our PCs just turns into heat, and we use more energy to cool it down. If only, somehow there was a way how to turn most of the heat back to electricity...
Saddly, the thermoelectric generators he used only have an efficiency of ~5% so it won't be possible before a while
If that was in ma PC Thor would get shocked by the amount of electricity my PC makes
I was told by somewhat a friend of mine around 2005ish that she found a way to quite efficiently turn PC heat into electricity from using liquid mercury expanding through a very long tesla tube, especially for smartphones. 2015ish... she then told me that project was too expensive, but... started looking into 3D printing fiber photonic GPUs which requires almost no power and produces no heat.
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This is dangerous. It reminds me of the time I tried to make a water-powered personal computer. I didn't even have to plug it into the wall and it generated more than enough power to stay on as long as I had water. It was flawless. I decided to show my friends and they built similar rigs. They started to boast about it online which gained the attention of certain groups. My one friend with the largest following spread his build everywhere. One day, it all stopped. He disappeared. A week after his disappearance, he was found dead. Suicide. He had shot himself three times in the back of his head then drove out in the middle of the desert. Once he reached his destination, he lit himself on fire and stuffed himself inside his trunk. "What could possibly lead someone to do this to themself?" I thought. Then it all became clear to me. I figured that once he saw his power bill after using a computer that runs on water, he went utterly insane due to how low the cost was. I mean when I saw my bill for the first I went absolutely mad. After that, I had vowed to never touch a water-powered PC ever again. Homeless, I just want you to be careful. Maybe an expensive power bill is worth it.
And I own 3 Nimitz-class Aircraft carriers.
this reads like an AI wrote a shitpost
tf did I just read
infinite glitch
I found this channel because I had the same idea. I am happy you did it, so I don't have to. Subscribed. 😊
For all the people asking why this sort of this isn't used in modern PCs, it's because the additional costs to all the extra components far outweighs any sort of efficiency gains from a system like this. You are effectively generating a watt or two from the waste heat of a system that requires a few hundred times that to run.
And for those who are wondering, similar systems are actually used for some large datacenters, but rather than turning that waste heat back into electricity it's directed somewhere useful, like to heating pools or heating homes and greenhouses.
if he combined this with solar panels, he would become a god
I was hoping for Dark Web PC part 2, where's it at
the goverment will come for you
STREAMLINE THE DESIGN!!!
thought I’d join the bandwagon.
The power of the sun in the palm of my hand
Early
Ur first for me
I would love to see a part 2 to this tbh
4:06
That employee needs a raise for going with your humor without skipping a beat
I get that this video is mainly for entertainment, but for anyone who wasn't sure...
10:25 - it might be showing 280 milliamps on the meter, but the meter basically puts a short-circuit across the probes when in Current mode, so there will be almost no voltage across the TEGs when measuring the current.
2.1V * 280mA would be just over *half* a Watt. But the real generated power is going to be only a tiny fraction of that.
Also, eventually the heatsinks inside the box will reach more of an equilibrium with the temperature on the hot side of the TEGs, so it will become even less efficient.
Having said that, with enough TEGs, and a very small amount of (very low-power) active cooling with fans, you *might* be able to slowly charge your phone using only the heat from the PC. Or, charge a power bank using the TEGs (which will take a long time), then charge your phone from the power bank later.
Or, just underclock your GPU a tiny tiny bit, and save yourself more on the electricity bill than you would gain from this setup. ;)
btw, that isn't to say that I dislike this channel. I'm definitely going to watch the potato video right now. lol
The man who creates a universal kit that can be bought from amazon and installed to any pc will be a very rich man
This kind of thermoelectric generator (a Peltier module) has a higher electric output if the temperature difference is higher. The best way to do it is to put the generator module between the CPU and the cold plate of the AIO. You don't even need anything external to the PC. You should try it.
Well you gotta be careful when converting gigafarts into gigasharts. The cross over can give you a burnout brownout swampass or mudbutt.
With proper insulation you could put the generators in the middle wall, and when the air makes its way back in the system passes by these cool pads cooling it without any addition fan.
I was actually thinking about that at school when I was bored and you really did this
Dang he should sell his innovations, that's awesome. (just found this after seeing the invisible pc video, that was amazing)
This could be done much more efficiently with a liquid cooling loop that takes the heat from the CPU and GPU to a water block that transfers the heat to the dielectrics and use the fan and coolers on the outside to keep the thermal differential
Next vid: I built a pc that runs on nuclear energy…
If I overclock it too much it might leave a crater in the US but that’s ok.
That’s actually genius this man is a madlad
Using peltier devices to cool a room would be a badass project. I spend 3x as much on power in the summer here in Cali...
i think u just revolutionized pcs for-Ever