Thermoelectric cooling: it's not great.
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A thermoelectric module can be tiny, but a refrigerator still has to dump heat from its hot side. The presenter includes the heat sink and fan in the comparison, then relates heat removed to electricity consumed.
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you need a finned heat sinkcan move more heat energy out of the fridge's interior than it takes to run the heat pump