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Don't you need an external source of heat for a heat pump? They move heat from one place to another, rather than generate heat directly, so all you would be doi
by coderenegade 4y ago
Don't you need an external source of heat for a heat pump? They move heat from one place to another, rather than generate heat directly, so all you would be doing is moving existing heat, and then converting that into electricity, but we can already do that without the heat pump.
- ben-schaaf 4y agoThey're suggesting using the heat from the air as the power source.
- coderenegade 4y agoI get that, but you need fairly high grade heat to generate power. The idea would be to move enough heat from lower grade sources to a reservoir that is then hot enough to generate more power than is required to move the heat in the first place. It's effectively harvesting the ambient air temperature. I don't know that you could pull in that much heat, and I suspect that an analysis of the system might show that it can't yield useful work.