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