Re:Geothermal's path to relevance: cheap drilling
by HPsquared on Wednesday October 27, 2021 @03:35AM
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Geothermal power is based on a heat engine: a machine which produces usable energy (e.g. electricity) out of the transfer of heat from a high-temperature heat source to a low-temperature heat sink (a process which would happen naturally, given a transfer process).
A ground-source heat pump is a heat pump: a machine which consumes usable energy in order to move heat from a LOW-temperature heat source to a HIGH-temperature heat sink (a process which would not occur naturally without energy input due to the 2nd law of thermodynamics).
A ground-source heat pump is a heat pump: a machine which consumes usable energy in order to move heat from a LOW-temperature heat source to a HIGH-temperature heat sink (a process which would not occur naturally without energy input due to the 2nd law of thermodynamics).