Electrostatic Cooling Effects + Heat pumps

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    The conversion of ambient heat to electrical is hampered by the fact that there need be a scource of cold to allow heat to intiate a flow of energy through the system.  The ocean thermal energy converters have very little temperature differential so that the size of the units are huge per kilowatt output.  By securing a higher temperature differential the units could be made much smaller.  Heat of vaporization is secured at the scource of thermal energy.  The increased pressure then is run through a turbine and the gas then needs to be condensed in order to maintain a pressure differential across the turbine.  The process is limited not only by how fast you can get the heat to the evaporating liquid but to get the heat out in order to condense the liquid.  The present systems require large heatexchangers and are limited to locations where a large temperature differential exists.  An electrostatic potential generated by the turbine and maintained in the field of the condensor should allow for the use of ambient conversion devices with very small if any temperature differentials.  The electrostatic cooling effect is a second law violation but in fact does occurr and is used in laser mirror cooling and critical welding operations.  The use of this effect would allow a portion of the electrical output of the turbine/alternator to cool ambient air to temperatures to reduce the size of the condensors as well as operate in most any place where things are hot.