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Turning Ocean Thermal to Hashrate | Nate Harmon | Compass Podcast

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How Do You Get Thermal Power From Cold Water?

Gus: I'm assuming you need some sort of fossil fuel engine to get the whole process started. And then, like the cold water itself, how does that provide enough locomotion for an engine, or to provide enough energy to run something else? Like, where is the the thermal power going, in a sense? Yes. O, of course, you're pumping deep water up, so you have to kik start it rightin. You're going to need some fossil fuel. Whether that's solar or wind, a, it doesn't really matter its energy. Agna you just have to get the pump started. It's not a nuclear a. It's even simpler than

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