posted 5 years ago
When I think of thermal energy, I think of stuff like a cone-shaped greenhouse with a turbine in the center of the cone. When the air inside the greenhouse warms up, it rises and is pushed through the turbine spinning the blades and causing power to be made. And yet at night, when the temperatures cool, the air gets funnels back down to spin the generator yet again.
A Stirling Engine using solar power would be another example...