Ocean heat around Florida is ‘unprecedented,’ and scientists are warning of major impacts
Ocean heat around Florida is ‘unprecedented,’ and scientists are warning of major impacts
A sudden marine heat wave off the coast of Florida has surprised scientists and sent water temperatures soaring to unprecedented highs, threatening one of the most severe coral bleaching events the state has ever seen.
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So how do we get giant heat sinks in the water and harness the energy?
Heat's too diffuse to be useful. Entropy 🙃
Seriously I'm dumb but wouldn't it just be transfer of heat? I was joking btw but now I'm invested lol.
You need a temperature gradient to extract energy.
The water is still cooler than the atmosphere just less than usual.
It would be a few degrees warmer than deep ocean water, so you could maybe power one of those toy stirling engines with a heat sink near the surface and one deep down, but the amount of usable energy per m^2 would be milliwatts at best.
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.
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.
I had to look it up, it's dense and I have no idea how it works. I'm going back to art lol.
I see, thank you.