Which process causes a thermoelectric cooler to remove heat on one side and release it on the other?

💡 Explanation

When an electrical voltage is applied to a thermoelectric cooler, the Peltier effect causes heat to be absorbed at one junction and released at the other because electrons carry heat as they move between materials. Therefore the Peltier effect allows targeted heat transfer rather than the other effects which either measure or uniformly distribute heat.

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