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[–] hydroptic@sopuli.xyz 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Pretty much everything that's not totally inert produces heat, but the point (they claim!) is that these newfangled doodads don't generate power using that heat.

So far we've mainly been generating power with more and more ingenious ways of heating up water.