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    1 day ago

    The energy needed for phase change for supercritical CO2 is substantially lower than steam.

    There’s more wiggle room. My understanding is that similar to heat pumps, they can build systems with different optimal temperatures, and even daisy chain them together. They’ll never make a perpetual motion machine, but they can waste less energy.