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Is temperature a source of energy?

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MarioLiew

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14y ago
Updated: 8/19/2019

No. Temperature is a measurement of atomic or molecular movement.

If you have a difference in temperature between two things, you could use the difference, (and reducing the difference) to get energy,

To put it simply, if you have a hot item and a cold item, you can take the difference to make electricity.

If you are in a desert, and everuthing has the same temperature, you can't.

Similarly, the weights on a clock gives energy to the movement of the clock, until they reach the floor, then all the potential energy has been transformed into kinetic (movement) energy in the clock, and finally to heat due to friction.

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