• Madison420@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    There is a temperature gradient from deep water to shallow, the sterling cycle is just not efficient enough to gain energy with a massive deep-shallow-deep heat pipe system.

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      1 year ago

      That’s usually the information I’m looking for.

      Even if the concept works in theory, on practice it may not yield enough magnitude to be useful.