Waste heat will boil the oceans in about 400 years

Re:Waste heat will boil the oceans in about 400 years by freakynit on Sunday February 26, 2023 @04:18AM (#34944184)

Isn't there any material that generates electricity using such vastly available ambient heat?

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Re:Waste heat will boil the oceans in about 400 years by andreareina on Sunday February 26, 2023 @05:39AM (#34944542)

There must be a thermal gradient, i.e. it doesn't work if everything is at the same temperature.

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Re:Waste heat will boil the oceans in about 400 years by freakynit on Thursday March 02, 2023 @02:53AM (#34993192)

One end inside the ground and one in the air... Will that work? Maybe ocean instead of ground?

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