I get that fossil fuel burning generates more energy but there are wild fire breakouts due to scorching temps in southern Europe (and the rest) …whats the big deal breaker stopping us from harnessing the climate energy increase we cause and long term view of reducing emissions.. which in turn reduces the energy we can harness from our climate.
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You can’t really get usable energy (i.e. energy to do work) out of just generalized heat. You need a heat difference, then you can extract energy from the flow of heat from hot to cold.
Heating up the environment doesn’t really make any new energy available.
For a more rigorous treatment of this concept, look up the Carnot cycle. Basically, any heat engine can be treated thermodynamically as a Carnot cycle, and the maximum energy you can extract is related to the hottest and coldest parts of the engine.
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