> 	Given that thermocouples produce electrical energy as long as
> the temperature is above absolute 0, then why couldn't one put a few
> million junctions in series with each other and get some voltage from
> ambient temperature?

they don't. they need temperature *difference*.

Wouter van Ooijen

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