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An engineer proposes a power plant that will extract heat from warm surface water in the o...

An engineer proposes a power plant that will extract heat from warm surface water in the ocean, convert some of it to work, and release the remaining heat into cooler water at greater depths. Is this a perpetual-motion machine and, if so, what kind? Explain.

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