• Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz
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    2 months ago

    Wot if instead of boiling water, we boiled CO2, and instead of boiling CO2, we kept it at high pressure so that it never quite reached boiling or condensation?

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      2 months ago

      shouldn’t it boil so that it can expands and makes pressure to move a turbine?

      why use energy to make a counter pressure

      • Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz
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        2 months ago

        Supercritical phase, it still changes pressure with heat, but there’s no abrupt phase transition. This increases efficiency somehow.