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Is there sufficient energy stored in a frozen water pipe to...

Is there sufficient energy stored in a frozen water pipe to...

Is there sufficient energy stored in a frozen water pipe to...

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Is there sufficient energy stored in a frozen water pipe to be captured?

RE: Is there sufficient energy stored in a frozen water pipe to...

There is no inherently usable energy stored in a frozen water pipe, other than the "elastic" energy of the expanded pipe and the pipe's compressive energy on the frozen water you could harness if the water melted.  There is a possible temperature differential that could represent a potential to do work that you might be clever enough to exploit, if you could connect a machine between that frozen pipe and something of higher temperature, or another object of a still lower temperature, and use any resulting flow of heat beween the two to drive the machine.  Just as a +12 V terminal has no energy you could use, if it was connected by a motor to another +12V terminal, the frozen water pipe would have no potential to do any work, if it was placed in an environment of the same temperature.  Its kinda' like why you don't need a freezer, if you live at the North Pole.  

IF you have a potential temperature difference to exploit, maybe you can,

If you have 1 lb of ice at 32ºF, perhaps you could use it to heat up 1 lb of ice at 30ºF, resulting in a final temperature for both of them of 31ºF, if you didn't lose any heat to something else in the process of doing so.  That seems like a difficult process from which to extract usefull work, but if you used it to heat up some other substance, one that changed phase from liquid to a gas and increased its volume significantly, you might be able to enclose that substance in a cylinder and piston device and extract useful work from the process of heating that substance.  

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