The Vapour Compression Cycle is rather effecient, over 300% in some cases. Why couldn’t we use that to create a near limitless amount of energy by drawing heat from the atmosphere and using it to boil water to power a turbine?
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There are examples of this that do work. Specifically for geo thermal power when the fluid is not very hot. Basically you take a large amount of warm water and use a heat pump to make a small amount of very hot water.
This kind of explains it.
https://www.planete-energies.com/en/media/article/very-low-temperature-geothermal-energy
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