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I'm curious about the environmental effects of harvesting heat from the environment. Given that hurricanes are driven by extreme sea surface energy, it would st

I'm curious about the environmental effects of harvesting heat from the environment. Given that hurricanes are driven by extreme sea surface energy, it would stand to reason that harvesting enormous amounts of excess energy in natural systems across a large enough area would be useful. Harvesting in too localized of an area could cause ecological problems.

rini17 3y ago
All the heat that is taken by heat pump from the environment, is returned as waste heat/leaks nearby. In case of district heating, it's 10 kilometers away at most. That isn't going to affect balance of anything much.
- psd1 3y ago
  I think it's a valid cavil; you take heat from the sea but emit it to the ground and atmosphere. The respective deltas may or may not be negligible.
  - rini17 3y ago
    So far, we were noticeably heating the oceans up and this should stop.